Vivek Patel

Optimist. Compute @Baseten

[Amir Haghighat @amiruci]

Serverless Loops is GA today. @datadoghq runs multi-turn agentic RL, @LangChain post-trains on agent traces for LangSmith Engine, and @AmbienceAI tunes models for clinical language and transcription.

[Jaikumar Ganesh @jaikumarganes]

Reconnecting with old colleagues from Uber after 8 years and them recollecting how happy they were on the team #special_teams

The same is happening at @baseten
Ping me

[Amir Haghighat @amiruci]

https://t.co/PIJMltDGuU

[Baseten @baseten]

Inference, training, routing, governance, and sandboxes are the building blocks of every AI product today.

We’ve learned a lot from our customers about what it takes to build that system well: @OpenEvidence trains models that outperform the closed frontier, then serves them on Dedicated Inference. @datadoghq post-trains on Loops. @Opendoor routes every AI request across the company through Grid.

This week we have three launches expanding our inference platform:

- Grid: gateway, intelligent router, and guardrails for every model your company uses (launching tomorrow)

- Sandboxes: stateful, VM-isolated environments for agents that scale to thousands of instances in seconds (launching Thursday)

- Loops: serverless SFT and RL on open-weight models, deployable straight to Dedicated Inference (GA Friday)

@amiruci, @saimaddali, @paul_s3i, and @oneill_c break down what we're launching. You might notice the visuals have a new look as well.

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

LEGEND. Pumped to have you @sumeetm on the Baseten Compute team.

[TBPN @tbpn]

BREAKING: @sumeetm has joined the Data team at Baseten on Compute

[Sumeet Marwaha @sumeetm]

Some personal news: I’ve joined the Data team at @baseten on Compute

Inference will be the largest market in history. And there is some chance it’s the last market in history.

Excited to work with @VDP83 and team to accelerate a company that already moves crazy fast

[Michael Feil @feilsystem]

Baseten is offering joey, the world's fastest model:
- at JEV 1.14 quality
- https://t.co/RPf9Zn6tQ6
- 0.01$ price / M

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

I'm recruiting for the Compute team @baseten: https://t.co/dIwxkFrFYp

I'm looking for people who have strong analytical ability, are intellectually curious, and are relentless.

DM, refer, apply if any of these roles are interesting!

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

@maiab @pitdesi Sorry! I meant @pitdesi w/ codex. I use Ownwell as well and the big value add is they handle the in-person logistics (unless that isn’t a real thing).

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

@pitdesi @maiab Did you have to go in-person to get your appeal reviewed?

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

@adamiweiss Yes I’m a very happy customer!

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

Phenomenal product & company

[Casa @getcasa]

After two years of building under wraps, today we're announcing Casa – your personal property manager. We've raised $27M to redefine the homeownership experience from the ground up.

We believe your home is your most treasured asset, emotionally & financially. It shouldn't also be a second job.

Most homeowners are on their own – expected to have the time, expertise, and relationships to keep things running. Finding a plumber you can trust. Remembering when the HVAC was last serviced. Knowing what's actually wrong before someone shows up to fix it.

Casa gives every homeowner what used to be reserved for the few: a dedicated team that knows your home deeply, handles the work, and stays in your corner. We're enabling this by building a deep, technical understanding of every home we serve – something that's never existed before, across 100 million single-family homes in the country.

For $199/mo, membership includes:

- A complete inventory of your home, built using specialized hardware & software
- 1.5 hours of handyman time every month (and it rolls over)
- Unlimited Concierge requests to take on virtually any home project
- Custom, proactive care plans built specifically for your home
- Weekly package and donation pickups
- Scheduling and payments for your regular vendors
- Utility and property tax monitoring

…and we’re just getting started, with more benefits on the way to make the experience of owning your home as magical as it always should have been.

Available now in the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles. Reserve your spot everywhere else.

→ https://t.co/vTUSR000fC

[Philip Kiely @philipkiely]

Enterprise teams can now use open models like GLM-5.3 Flash and Kimi K3 natively in Codex and count spend against their OpenAI commit.

[Neha Sharma @nsharmz]

And still invite only! Feels like another liftoff moment but for consumer AI

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

whenever someone was asking where they should work, i sent them breakout list, it's so great to see it's back: https://t.co/7eevhdPCdr

for @physical_int specifically, i'm looking to hire a head of / business leader (former/current founders ideal!) and our first creative hire!

[Tuhin Srivastava @tuhinone]

Today the Blaxel team is joining Baseten. As AI moves from single models to millions of agents, we need a new infrastructure stack to support it. Together we're building a platform where execution, inference, and training run on one system.

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

@splaice Interesting. Signing up.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Today we’re announcing SPC Fund IV: $575M to help founders find their life’s work.

A decade of guiding founders through -1 to 0 brings @SPC to $2B in AUM and, more importantly, a 1200 member community of the world’s most talented technologists. We strongly believe that:

→ The person comes before the idea. At -1, generational founders are often busy reading, prototyping, discarding, and earning the right to their own conviction.
→ Ambition is social. The people you surround yourself with in the early days play a big part in inflecting your ambition.
→ Patience compounds. It is better to work on something you have deep conviction in rather than simply sprint at the first idea.

The quiet months we protect at the beginning have produced three funds in the top 10% of their vintages, and companies like @baseten, @GammaApp, @render, @GoodfireAI, @LumaLabsAI, and @profound. We are proud to have worked with all these founders in their -1 phase and beyond.

While we defined -1 to 0, we're no longer bound by it. Fund IV allows us to partner with companies well beyond launch.

We're doing this now because we've never seen a wider gap between what's possible and what's being attempted. Intelligence is abundant. The cost of trying ideas keeps falling, and problems that seemed insurmountable a few years ago are quickly becoming solvable.

To our members, to the founders who trusted us before anyone else did, and to the LPs who had conviction in our own -1 journey: thank you. This milestone belongs to you as much as to us.

To the builders looking to find your life’s work: let’s get started.

[Vivek Patel @VDP83]

@incredutility We got one for our daughter and she *loves* it. As do the grandparents. Recommend.