The most interesting AI startups are owning their models, controlling their inference, and shipping fast - and most people don't know it yet. “Built on Baseten” is a quarterly showcase where early-stage founders building on Baseten get on a stage and share what they built. Founders from: Trajectory (Arjun Karanam) Subconscious (Jack O'Brien) Antigen (Saad Jamal) Kaizen (Kenneth Acquah) Will be sharing their technical stories- why they chose to own their models, how they built their inference stack, and the challenges behind it. If you're an engineer, technical founder, or builder thinking about inference - this is the room to be in. Space is limited. 📍 Baseten HQ, San Francisco 🗓️ Tuesday, August 4th Schedule 6:00–6:30 PM - Welcome drinks & bites 6:30- 7:30 PM - Startup demos. 15 min each, 4 founders 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Open networking This event is hosted by Baseten and CapitalG – Baseten is the inference platform behind some of the most demanding AI workloads in production like, Abridge, Cursor, Notion, and OpenEvidence. Most bring their own models. We make them fast. CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, invests in generational companies transforming the world’s largest markets. CapitalG’s portfolio companies include Baseten, Clay, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Duolingo, LangChain, Lovable, OpenRouter, Stripe, and Whatnot, among others.
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