# Amir Haghighat > Amir Haghighat is co-founder and CTO. Baseten, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/index.md (~1,750 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/index.min.md (~1,530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-28 Co-founder and CTO. Amir 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. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirhaghighat/ ## What Amir builds - [Baseten](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md), graded B, 66.7/100, in GPU & 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. - [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. - [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. ## Works with - [Aaryam Sharma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaryam-sharma/), Model performance researcher; model technical report co-author - [Charles O’Neill](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-o-neill/), Base Labs researcher; model technical report co-author - [Max Kirkby](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/max-kirkby/), Base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author - [Michael Psenka](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-psenka/), Base Labs founding principal research scientist and lead; model technical report co-author - [Pankaj Gupta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pankaj-gupta/), Co-founder - [Phil Howes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/), Co-founder and Chief Scientist - [Thomas Villeneuve](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-villeneuve/), Research scientist; model technical report co-author - [Tuhin Srivastava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tuhin-srivastava/), Co-founder and CEO ## Backed by - [IVP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ivp/) - [CapitalG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalg/) - [01 Advisors](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/01-advisors/) - [Altimeter Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altimeter-capital/) - [Battery Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/battery-ventures/) - [BOND](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/) - [BoxGroup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/boxgroup/) - [Blackbird Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackbird-ventures/) - [Conviction](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/) - [Greylock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greylock/) - [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/) - [Sands Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sands-capital/) - [Wellington Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wellington-management/) ## Questions ### Who is Amir Haghighat? Amir 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. ### What does Baseten make? Anchor 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. ### Who has invested in Baseten? The 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. ### How are Amir's tools graded? Baseten 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. ## Sources - https://www.baseten.co/about-us/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuhin-srivastava/details/experience/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuhin-srivastava/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirhaghighat/details/experience/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirhaghighat/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philhowes/details/experience/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philhowes/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajcraft/details/experience/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajcraft/ - https://www.baseten.co/ - https://www.baseten.co - https://x.com/baseten - https://docs.baseten.co/ - https://www.baseten.co/service-level-agreement/ - https://labs.baseten.co/articles/mammoth-1-and-elephant-1-frontier-decision-models - https://maxkirkby5.github.io - https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-kirkby15/ - https://x.com/maxkirkby - https://www.michaelpsenka.io - https://linkedin.com/in/michael-psenka - https://x.com/michaelpsenka - https://www.baseten.co/author/thomas-villeneuve/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-villeneuve - https://www.baseten.co/author/aaryam-sharma/ - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aaryam-sharma-289903218 - https://x.com/oneill_c - https://huggingface.co/baselabs/elephant-1 - https://huggingface.co/baselabs/mammoth-1 These 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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