The $13 Billion AI Startup Betting on Cheaper Alternatives to OpenAI, Anthropic (4 minute read)
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Baseten, a $13 billion AI startup, provides software and computing capacity to companies using lower-cost AI models as alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic.
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