# Max Kirkby (slim)

> Max Kirkby is base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author. elephant-1 and mammoth-1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-kirkby15/
- X: https://x.com/maxkirkby

## What Max builds

- [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. Base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author, 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. Base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Aaryam Sharma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaryam-sharma/), Model performance researcher; model technical report co-author
- [Amir Haghighat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/), Co-founder and CTO
- [Charles O’Neill](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-o-neill/), Base Labs researcher; 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 Max Kirkby?

Max Kirkby is base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author.

### What does Baseten make?

Anchor Terminal lists elephant-1 and mammoth-1 from Baseten.

### 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 Max's tools graded?

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://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://www.baseten.co/
- https://www.baseten.co
- https://x.com/baseten
- https://docs.baseten.co/
- https://huggingface.co/baselabs/elephant-1
- https://huggingface.co/baselabs/mammoth-1

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