# Pankaj Gupta

> Pankaj Gupta is co-founder. Baseten, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder.

Pankaj Gupta is a co-founder of Baseten, an AI inference platform started in 2019. He writes on model performance, including a review of Baseten's 2024 optimisation work and tests of Llama 3.3 70B inference on NVIDIA GH200 in Lambda Cloud.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajcraft/

## What Pankaj 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, 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, 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, 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
- [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
- [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 Pankaj Gupta?

Pankaj Gupta is a co-founder of Baseten, an AI inference platform started in 2019. He writes on model performance, including a review of Baseten's 2024 optimisation work and tests of Llama 3.3 70B inference on NVIDIA GH200 in Lambda Cloud.

### 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 Pankaj'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

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