@alina_weinstein: Inference is becoming the largest market in the world and it's still being built. Baseten processes more than 1 billion…
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Baseten processes over 1 billion inference calls per day and has raised $1.5B to scale its infrastructure, highlighting inference as a massive market.
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Inference is becoming the largest market in the world and it’s still being built. Baseten processes more than 1 billion inference calls per day - the infrastructure is working. We raised $1.5B to scale it. https://t.co/5e9qCGaSWC
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