A Q&A From Inference To Training: The Inside Story Of Baseten's Newest Product
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A Q&A from inference to training: the inside story of Baseten's newest product. BaseTen Labs, Inc. launched a new training infrastructure that lets teams bring their existing code and run it on scalable compute with no heavy abstractions. It's built for flexibility, custom models, audio models, multi-node jobs rather than point-and-click constraints. The product ties directly into Baseten's inference stack, making it easy to go from training to deployment seamlessly. Early customers like OpenEvidence and Oxen have already used it to speed up inference, distill models, and even build full platforms on top of Baseten. BaseTen Labs, Inc. just launched training at Baseten. I sat down with one of the engineers, Raymond, who built it to learn about the product, early customers, and what makes it different. How long have you been at Baseten and what brought you here? I joined in June 2024, so almost a year and a half ago. What really stood out to me was how transparent the founders were about iterating on the product and learning from the market. They talked about how BaseTen Labs, Inc. had "earned the opportunity" to do certain things with its customers. Like how BaseTen Labs, Inc. is an inference company, but BaseTen Labs, Inc. has earned the trust to do training with them. Looking back, it's kind of crazy that a year later I was in the thick of building that training...
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