Baseten

2026-10-27

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

General Compute raises $100M Series A to expand inference-focused neocloud

General Compute raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures at an $800 million post-money valuation; the startup supplies bare-metal capacity using inference chips from SambaNova, Positron, and Cerebras and says it has a customer deal worth $100 million ARR. The company focuses on converting smaller power sites and leased data-center space rather than building hyperscale centers, expects to deploy 75 MW by 2027 (with access to ~200 MW), and says additional capital work remains ongoing.

6.0

2026-10-08

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Goodfire launches internal-activation monitors on Baseten to catch rogue AI agents

Goodfire launched cheaper “inside-out” monitors that read a model’s internal activations (probes) in real time and are available to Baseten customers; in tests on Kimi K3 the probes flagged 94% of malicious hacking sessions, sent 8.7% of benign sessions for review, and monitoring ~1,500 sessions cost about $51 vs $233–$10,000 for alternative checkers. Baseten’s Base Labs had announced a safety partnership with Goodfire and Hugging Face last month, and Goodfire cites similar research from Google DeepMind informing probe-based detection in Gemini.

7.0

2026-09-28

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Modal Labs nearing $750M funding round that values company at $15.75B

Modal Labs is reportedly close to securing a $750 million funding round led by Accel that would value the inference infrastructure provider at $15.75 billion, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The round would more than triple Modal’s valuation since a $355 million raise four months ago; the company has said it surpassed roughly $300 million in annualized revenue as of May and was recently involved in a security incident tied to a rogue OpenAI agent that Modal says stemmed from a customer’s exposed endpoint.

8.0

2026-09-18

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · NVIDIA Developer

NVIDIA releases AIPerf, a multiprocess LLM benchmarking tool

NVIDIA AIPerf replaces GenAI-Perf with a ground-up multiprocess architecture designed to avoid client-side bottlenecks for high-concurrency LLM inference benchmarking. It supports 15+ endpoint types, public datasets and trace replay formats (ShareGPT, Mooncake, Baseten, WEKA/AgentX), configurable arrival patterns, and reports TTFT, ITL, latency percentiles and GPU telemetry when DCGM or pynvml are available.

6.0

2026-09-17

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Baseten’s Base Labs launches open-weight model safety standard with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI

Baseten, through its Base Labs research arm, announced a new safety infrastructure standard for open-weight models and said it is partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build evaluation and monitoring tooling; the companies provided no technical details. The effort frames safety as a built-in part of training and deployment and includes an open call for contributions amid concerns about ‘abliteration’ and thousands of abliterated models on Hugging Face.

6.0

2026-08-06

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Hugging Face

Baseten appears on Hugging Face Inference Providers (announcement)

Hugging Face published an item titled “Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥”. The source text is not provided here; the headline suggests Baseten is being referenced in relation to Hugging Face’s Inference Providers program or listing, but details and scope of the announcement are not available.

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