Baseten Announces Series F to Fuel AI Inference Platform Growth
AI infrastructure startup Baseten has announced a Series F funding round. The company serves billions of LLM inference calls weekly for customers including OpenEvidence and Speechify.
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AI infrastructure startup Baseten has announced a Series F funding round. The company serves billions of LLM inference calls weekly for customers including OpenEvidence and Speechify.
A global quick-service restaurant chain is using Fireworks AI's real-time voice intelligence to speed up orders and boost revenue, with plans to scale across thousands of locations.
The AI inference platform has closed a Series D funding round and reports hitting a $1 billion annual revenue run rate.
Fireworks AI has unveiled a partner program that brings together hyperscalers, consultancies, and AI tooling companies to help enterprises deploy generative AI at scale.
Fireworks AI rolled out an AI code assistance platform built on its inference stack, promising sub-100ms streaming completions fine-tuned to a company's internal codebase. The company cites customer results from Cursor and Sourcegraph as validation.
The inference platform maker claims it has hit a billion dollars in annualized revenue and is rolling out a broad partner ecosystem spanning AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Deloitte, and more.
Alibaba’s Happy Horse 1.1 video generation model is hosted on Replicate, offering text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation. According to Replicate, output costs $0.14 per second at 720p and $0.18 per second at 1080p, with clip lengths from 3 to 15 seconds.
Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0 video generation model is now accessible via Replicate's API, supporting both text-to-video and image-to-video generation at 720p and 1080p resolutions with durations from 3 to 15 seconds.
Replicate's August 23 weekly bulletin highlights new FLUX.1 interfaces for multi-model and multi-LoRA image generation, the open-source Deep-Live-Cam real-time deepfake tool, and a bioRxiv preprint proposing that REM sleep functions as a form of neural synthetic data generation. Entrepreneur Pieter Levels also mentioned Replicate during a recent Lex Fridman podcast appearance, according to the company blog.
Replicate now lets users fine-tune the FLUX.1 image model with custom images, while its latest weekly bulletin also covers Tavus’s real-time conversational video API, Sketch2Scene’s sketch-to-3D-game pipeline, and Puppet-Master’s object controls for Stable Video Diffusion.
Replicate's weekly bulletin reports nearly 5 million first-week predictions for FLUX.1 [schnell] and new image-to-image support for FLUX.1 [dev]. The update also highlights a Streamlit tutorial featuring Replicate's Zeke and Odyssey, a Minecraft agent framework using fine-tuned LLaMA-3.
Replicate's weekly bulletin covers new open-source AI releases including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 image generator, Meta's SAM 2 segmentation model, and Google's Gemma 2 2B language model, alongside tools for model interpretability and distributed training research.
Replicate's weekly bulletin covers Meta's release of the Llama 3.1 model family including the 405B parameter model, Mistral AI's Large 2 under a research license, and Meta's open-sourced toolkit for building AI agents. The issue also highlights Meta's PromptGuard for detecting malicious prompts and a new Replicate API endpoint for searching public models.
Replicate's blog lists recent posts covering video and image generation models such as Seedance 2.0, Seedream 5.0, and FLUX.2, alongside prompting guides and company news including Replicate joining Cloudflare. Source: Replicate (https://replicate.com/blog).