Building a listed tool
Thomas Villeneuve
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Thomas builds
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.
Research scientist; model technical report co-author, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
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.
Research scientist; model technical report co-author, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Aaryam Sharma Model performance researcher; model technical report co-author
- Amir Haghighat Co-founder and CTO
- Charles O’Neill Base Labs researcher; model technical report co-author
- Max Kirkby Base Labs research co-lead; model technical report co-author
- Michael Psenka Base Labs founding principal research scientist and lead; model technical report co-author
- Pankaj Gupta Co-founder
- Phil Howes Co-founder and Chief Scientist
- Tuhin Srivastava Co-founder and CEO
Backed by
IVP CapitalG 01 Advisors Altimeter Capital Battery Ventures BOND BoxGroup Blackbird Ventures Conviction Greylock NVIDIA Sands Capital Wellington Management
Questions
Who is Thomas Villeneuve?
Thomas Villeneuve is research scientist; model technical report co-author.
What does Baseten make?
Anchor Terminal lists elephant-1 and mammoth-1 from Baseten. 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.
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 Thomas'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 (27)
- 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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