AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

Baseten is reportedly close to raising $1.5B at a $13B valuation, just months after its previous large financing. The deal reflects continued investor enthusiasm around AI infrastructure startups focused on serving model inference workloads.

The reported round underscores how AI inference is becoming one of the hottest infrastructure categories as companies move from model training to deployment at scale. If completed, Baseten’s valuation jump would signal that investors expect inference platforms to capture significant spending from enterprise AI adoption.