Baseten raises $300M at $5B valuation as AI inference infrastructure becomes venture capital's favorite bet

The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten

Baseten raised $13B; its experts explain how inference engineering—quantization and speculative decoding—delivers 20-200% throughput gains on open models. For tech leaders, inference optimization is as critical as model selection—directly shaping deployment costs, latency, and competitive advantage in AI systems.