# 7.6 Production Inference with Baseten

_Inference Engineering_ by Philip Kiely. © 2026 Baseten Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. From Chapter 7: Production. [Full book index](https://www.baseten.co/inference-engineering/llms.txt)

This book contains everything I’ve learned about inference in four years of working at Baseten.

Baseten is an AI infrastructure company founded in 2019. At Baseten, we are focused on highly performant and highly available inference for both open models and custom models. We also offer a platform for pre-training, post-training, and reinforcement learning.

We run inference for the world’s fastest-growing startups and most innovative enterprises, including Cursor, World Labs, Notion, OpenEvidence, Clay, Abridge, Gamma, Ambience, Writer, and hundreds more.

At Baseten, we focus on four essential pillars to deliver the fastest mission-critical inference:

- **Performance:** Consistent low latencies at scale powered by the Baseten Inference Stack.
- **Infrastructure:** Reliable multi-cloud deployments, fast and granular autoscaling, and robust security.
- **Tooling:** An intuitive and productive developer experience with logging, observability, and programmatic access.
- **Applied expertise:** Hands-on-keyboard implementation and assistance from forward deployed engineers.

We would be honored to provide fast, reliable inference for your AI-powered products.

Also, we are continuously hiring for all roles across engineering, sales, marketing, and operations. To learn more, visit [https://baseten.com/careers](https://baseten.com/careers).