AI inference provider Baseten is negotiating to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion post-money valuation, more than doubling its $5 billion valuation from its Series E round in January.
The funding discussions come six months after Baseten closed a $300 million Series E, indicating accelerated investor interest in the AI infrastructure space. The company's valuation would more than double from its previous round, reflecting growing demand for AI inference services as enterprises scale generative AI applications.
Baseten provides infrastructure for running AI models in production, handling the computational workload of executing trained models. The market for such services has intensified as companies seek cost-effective ways to deploy large language models and other AI systems at scale.
The reported funding round has not been officially confirmed by Baseten. The company competes with other inference providers including Modal, Replicate, and cloud providers' native offerings. The shift from $300 million to $1 billion in funding size signals substantial investor confidence in the sector's trajectory, though valuation inflation in AI infrastructure remains a broader market consideration.
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