# Phil Howes (slim) > Phil Howes is co-founder and Chief Scientist. Baseten, elephant-1 and mammoth-1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/index.md (~1,750 tokens) · this version ~1,580 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/ - Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28 - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) 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. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philhowes/ ## What Phil 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 Chief Scientist, 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 Chief Scientist, 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 Chief Scientist, 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 - [Pankaj Gupta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pankaj-gupta/), Co-founder - [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 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. ### 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. ## 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.