Baseten Acquires Blaxel To Build Integrated Agentic AI Infrastructure Platform
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Baseten has acquired Blaxel, bringing together Baseten's AI model inference and training infrastructure with Blaxel's execution, storage and networking technology for autonomous agents. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The companies plan to build an integrated infrastructure platform where developers can train and serve AI models while also operating long-running agents within the same system. Baseten has focused on infrastructure for training and serving AI models with an emphasis on performance, reliability and efficiency. Blaxel, meanwhile, has developed a stateful execution layer specifically designed for AI agents, including isolated computing environments, persistent storage and production-grade connectivity. The combination is intended to address a growing infrastructure challenge created by agentic AI applications. Unlike traditional model inference workloads, autonomous agents can execute code, interact with tools and APIs, maintain state over extended periods and repeatedly communicate with AI models while completing complex tasks. Blaxel has spent more than 18 months developing infrastructure intended specifically for those workloads. Its technology includes Sandboxes, isolated environments based on individual micro virtual machines that allow agents to safely write and execute code while maintaining separation from other workloads. Blaxel...
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