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Phil Howes

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Phil Howes

Co-founder and Chief Scientist

Phil Howes is co-founder and chief scientist of Baseten, an AI inference platform started in 2019. He has written on multi-node inference for large models such as DeepSeek-R1, on Baseten Hybrid for running models across a customer's cloud and Baseten's, and on why the company open-sourced its model serving tool.

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What Phil builds

  • Baseten B · 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 Chief Scientist, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

  • elephant-1 D · 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 Chief Scientist, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

  • mammoth-1 D · 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 Chief Scientist, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Backed by

IVP CapitalG 01 Advisors Altimeter Capital Battery Ventures BOND BoxGroup Blackbird Ventures Conviction Greylock NVIDIA Sands Capital Wellington Management

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Who is Phil Howes?

Phil Howes is co-founder and chief scientist of Baseten, an AI inference platform started in 2019. He has written on multi-node inference for large models such as DeepSeek-R1, on Baseten Hybrid for running models across a customer's cloud and Baseten's, and on why the company open-sourced its model serving tool.

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 Phil'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.

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