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Baseten cuts GLM-5.3 delta weight sync from 36 to 15 seconds
For developersOctober 30, 2026, 20:16

Baseten cuts GLM-5.3 delta weight sync from 36 to 15 seconds

Baseten says a delta weight sync for a roughly 770 GB GLM-5.3 checkpoint now takes 15 seconds with a 0.8-second request pause, down from 36 seconds and 6 seconds in its…

Baseten adds autoscaling schedules to cut cold-start delays
Products and toolsOctober 30, 2026, 17:51

Baseten adds autoscaling schedules to cut cold-start delays

Baseten has introduced autoscaling schedules, a feature that raises the minimum number of replicas ahead of predictable traffic so that requests do not wait on cold…

Baseten and Postman Team Up to Help Enterprises Run Agents in Production
BusinessOctober 29, 2026, 18:50

Baseten and Postman Team Up to Help Enterprises Run Agents in Production

Baseten has announced a partnership with Postman to help enterprises ship AI agents to production. Postman supplies the tools to build and operate agent workflows, while…

Baseten launches joey-1, a 2B decision model with 20 ms latency
ModelsOctober 29, 2026, 18:24

Baseten launches joey-1, a 2B decision model with 20 ms latency

Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B-parameter decision model that, according to the company, serves an average 2,000-token request at a P50 end-to-end latency of 20 ms. It…

Baseten Serves Qwen3-ASR 7x Faster for Batch Transcription
For developersOctober 28, 2026, 18:39

Baseten Serves Qwen3-ASR 7x Faster for Batch Transcription

Baseten says its optimized serving stack for Qwen3-ASR 1.7B transcribes 7x more audio per second than out-of-the-box vLLM at high concurrency on a single RTX PRO 6000.…

Baseten hires four engineering leaders from Google, Meta, Anyscale and Databricks
BusinessOctober 27, 2026, 19:14

Baseten hires four engineering leaders from Google, Meta, Anyscale and Databricks

Baseten has brought on four engineering leaders: Bryan Vann, Ilina Mitra, Jaikumar Ganesh and Rahmi Marasli. According to the company, they will help grow its…

Baseten Launches BDN Sealed Volumes to Keep Model Data Consistent
Products and toolsOctober 26, 2026, 22:23

Baseten Launches BDN Sealed Volumes to Keep Model Data Consistent

Baseten has released BDN Sealed Volumes, a feature that lets teams publish read-only data once and mount it in any deployment. According to the company, it is available…

Baseten Launches Network of Vetted RL Environment Companies
BusinessOctober 23, 2026, 19:36

Baseten Launches Network of Vetted RL Environment Companies

Baseten has introduced the Baseten Environment Network, a group of vetted RL environment companies that will build custom reinforcement learning environments for the…

Baseten releases mammoth-1 and elephant-1, open-source decision models
ModelsOctober 21, 2026, 18:58

Baseten releases mammoth-1 and elephant-1, open-source decision models

Baseten has released two open-source decision models, mammoth-1 (27B) and elephant-1 (9B), trained by its own research lab. According to the company, mammoth-1 ranks #1…

Baseten's Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 decision models free on AI Gateway
ModelsOctober 21, 2026

Baseten's Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 decision models free on AI Gateway

Vercel has made Baseten's Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 decision models available for free on AI Gateway for one week, with free access running through October 27. The models…

Reflection's Beam open-weight model launches on Baseten with day-0 support
ModelsOctober 16, 2026, 15:51

Reflection's Beam open-weight model launches on Baseten with day-0 support

Baseten has added Beam, the first open-weight model from Reflection, to its platform with day-0 support. Beam is a mixture-of-experts model aimed at coding and agentic…

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model for coding agentsTop story
ModelsOctober 15, 2026, 19:27

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model for coding agents

Meta has released the weights for Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight omnimodal mixture-of-experts model co-trained with Muse Code for coding agent workflows.…

Baseten adds NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal model
ModelsOctober 15, 2026, 17:10

Baseten adds NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal model

Baseten has made NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL available for inference and customization. The open multimodal model combines visual understanding, reasoning and tool…

Baseten to host Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models in dedicated environments
BusinessOctober 14, 2026, 14:01

Baseten to host Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models in dedicated environments

Baseten and Runway have partnered to let enterprises deploy Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models, including fine-tuned versions, in single-tenant environments…

Gradium TTS Reaches 155 ms Time-to-First-Audio on Baseten
ModelsOctober 13, 2026, 15:32

Gradium TTS Reaches 155 ms Time-to-First-Audio on Baseten

Gradium's text-to-speech model, designed for real-time AI voice agents, is now available as a dedicated deployment in Baseten's Model Library. According to Baseten, it…

Baseten and Goodfire AI launch Project Beacon for inline safety on open models
Safety and ethicsOctober 9, 2026, 19:01

Baseten and Goodfire AI launch Project Beacon for inline safety on open models

Baseten has announced Project Beacon, built with Goodfire AI, to add proactive safety controls directly to model inference. The system reads a model's internal…

Baseten Explains How to Pick Which Layers Run at 4 Bits in NVFP4
ResearchOctober 9, 2026, 16:16

Baseten Explains How to Pick Which Layers Run at 4 Bits in NVFP4

A high-quality NVFP4 quantization depends on deciding which layers of a model can run at 4 bits and which need more precision, according to a Baseten blog post published…

Baseten's AI-built inference engine beats vLLM by up to 90% on Qwen decode
For developersOctober 2, 2026, 23:09

Baseten's AI-built inference engine beats vLLM by up to 90% on Qwen decode

Baseten says an inference engine generated by an AI agent outperformed vLLM 0.25.1 by up to 90% on single-stream decode speed for Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B in NVFP4 precision on…

Baseten Claims Fastest GLM-5 Speeds on Artificial Analysis Benchmark
For developersOctober 2, 2026, 18:25

Baseten Claims Fastest GLM-5 Speeds on Artificial Analysis Benchmark

Baseten says its Model API for GLM-5 reached more than 200 tokens per second in a benchmark by Artificial Analysis, with a time to first token of roughly 200ms.…

Baseten joins OpenAI B2B Marketplace as open-model inference provider
BusinessSeptember 29, 2026, 20:08

Baseten joins OpenAI B2B Marketplace as open-model inference provider

Baseten has become one of the first open-model inference providers in the OpenAI B2B Marketplace, including a native integration within Codex. According to Baseten…

Baseten previews Carbon, Blaxel's microVM sandbox for AI agents
Safety and ethicsSeptember 28, 2026, 11:09

Baseten previews Carbon, Blaxel's microVM sandbox for AI agents

Baseten has opened a private preview of Carbon, the fourth infrastructure generation from Blaxel, the sandbox company it acquired. Carbon runs agents in microVM…

Baseten names Sheila Vashee chief marketing officer
BusinessSeptember 25, 2026, 19:19

Baseten names Sheila Vashee chief marketing officer

Baseten, which builds an inference platform for production AI, has appointed Sheila Vashee as its Chief Marketing Officer. According to the company, she brings more than…