The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
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Inference engineering masterclass, enterprise AI optimization
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Watch the full episode on YouTube: We first covered Baseten last year when DeepSeek mania was at peak hype. Now they have raised a monster $13B round and become one of the new cohort of AI Infra decacorns that are (with Nvidia, Intel, and the semis complex) chief beneficiaries of the Inference Inflection. We return to Baseten at the peak of the 2026 edition of Open Weights debate. Ali has published a viral breakdown of Kimi K3: And since you last saw him, Philip has spoken at AI Engineer and written the definitive book on Inference Engineering spotted all over SF: Three years ago, inference en
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