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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nAmir Haghighat is co-founder and CTO of Baseten, an AI inference platform started in 2019. He writes on its engineering, including how it runs GPT OSS 120B at over 500 tokens a second on NVIDIA GPUs, and announced Blaxel joining Baseten to work on agent infrastructure.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirhaghighat/\n\n## What Amir builds\n\n- [Baseten](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md), graded B, 66.7/100, in GPU \u0026 serverless compute. Dedicated model deployments packaged with the open-source Truss framework and served behind a per-model HTTPS endpoint, with autoscaling from zero replicas, async inference, a management API and per-minute GPU billing from T4 to B200. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [elephant-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elephant-1.md), graded D, 47.6/100, in Decision models. elephant-1 is Base Labs' open-weight 9B decision model, a full fine-tune of Qwen3.5-9B that returns a probability for every option of typed questions about a state in one prefill. Base Labs is Baseten's research lab. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [mammoth-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mammoth-1.md), graded D, 47.7/100, in Decision models. mammoth-1 is Base Labs' open-weight 27B decision model, a full fine-tune of Qwen3.5-27B that returns a probability for every option of each question about a state, without generating text. Base Labs is Baseten's research lab. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aaryam Sharma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaryam-sharma/), Model performance researcher; model technical report co-author\n- [Charles O’Neill](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-o-neill/), Base Labs researcher; model technical report co-author\n- [Max Kirkby](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/max-kirkby/), Base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author\n- [Michael Psenka](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-psenka/), Base Labs founding principal research scientist and lead; model technical report co-author\n- [Pankaj Gupta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pankaj-gupta/), Co-founder\n- [Phil Howes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/), Co-founder and Chief Scientist\n- [Thomas Villeneuve](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-villeneuve/), Research scientist; model technical report co-author\n- [Tuhin Srivastava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tuhin-srivastava/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [IVP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ivp/)\n- [CapitalG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalg/)\n- [01 Advisors](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/01-advisors/)\n- [Altimeter Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altimeter-capital/)\n- [Battery Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/battery-ventures/)\n- [BOND](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/)\n- [BoxGroup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/boxgroup/)\n- [Blackbird Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackbird-ventures/)\n- [Conviction](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/)\n- [Greylock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greylock/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Sands Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sands-capital/)\n- [Wellington Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wellington-management/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Amir Haghighat?\n\nAmir Haghighat is co-founder and CTO of Baseten, an AI inference platform started in 2019. He writes on its engineering, including how it runs GPT OSS 120B at over 500 tokens a second on NVIDIA GPUs, and announced Blaxel joining Baseten to work on agent infrastructure.\n\n### What does Baseten make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Baseten, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 from Baseten. Dedicated model deployments packaged with the open-source Truss framework and served behind a per-model HTTPS endpoint, with autoscaling from zero replicas, async inference, a management API and per-minute GPU billing from T4 to B200.\n\n### Who has invested in Baseten?\n\nThe sources our research read name IVP, CapitalG, 01 Advisors, Altimeter Capital, Battery Ventures, BOND, BoxGroup, Blackbird Ventures, Conviction, Greylock, NVIDIA, Sands Capital and Wellington Management.\n\n### How are Amir's tools graded?\n\nBaseten is graded B, 66.7 out of 100; elephant-1 is graded D, 47.6 out of 100; mammoth-1 is graded D, 47.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.baseten.co/about-us/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuhin-srivastava/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuhin-srivastava/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirhaghighat/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirhaghighat/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/philhowes/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/philhowes/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajcraft/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajcraft/\n- https://www.baseten.co/\n- https://www.baseten.co\n- https://x.com/baseten\n- https://docs.baseten.co/\n- https://www.baseten.co/service-level-agreement/\n- https://labs.baseten.co/articles/mammoth-1-and-elephant-1-frontier-decision-models\n- https://maxkirkby5.github.io\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-kirkby15/\n- https://x.com/maxkirkby\n- https://www.michaelpsenka.io\n- https://linkedin.com/in/michael-psenka\n- https://x.com/michaelpsenka\n- https://www.baseten.co/author/thomas-villeneuve/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-villeneuve\n- https://www.baseten.co/author/aaryam-sharma/\n- https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aaryam-sharma-289903218\n- https://x.com/oneill_c\n- https://huggingface.co/baselabs/elephant-1\n- https://huggingface.co/baselabs/mammoth-1\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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