According to TechCrunch, AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly close to closing a funding round worth one point five billion dollars, at a company valuation of thirteen billion dollars. It's the company's second major raise in just months, as part of the broader inference gold rush—investors are betting heavily on the infrastructure powering large language models at scale.

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