The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava

Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten, joins Gradient Dissent to discuss the core challenges of AI inference, from infrastructure and runtime bottlenecks to the practical differences between vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and SGLang. He shares how Baseten navigated years of searching for a market before the explosion of large-scale models, emphasizing a company-building philosophy focused on avoiding premature scaling and "burning the boats" to chase the biggest opportunities.