Flattening the AI cost curve at scale

Amir Haghighat is the co-founder and CTO at Baseten, an AI infrastructure company specializing in inference. Before Baseten, he led engineering teams at Clover Health and Gumroad.

Amir focuses on the hardest layer of AI: turning large models into reliable, performant, and cost-efficient production systems. His work centers on model-serving architecture, optimized batching, autoscaling, and observability, pushing the industry beyond hype metrics toward real system performance.

He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine (ICS).

Corinne Riley is a partner at Greylock, where she leads early-stage investments across AI infrastructure and applications.

She has backed companies at the earliest stages that have since become category-defining businesses, including Baseten, Braintrust, Cogent, Fable, and Resolve AI. More recently, she led Greylock’s investment in Altara, along with several companies still in stealth.

Corinne also built Greylock Edge, the firm’s three-month company-building program for founders working from pre-idea through early product-market fit, with flexible financing and hands-on company formation support. Since launching in October 2023, Edge has helped create seven companies, including Cogent Security, Fable Security, Highstock, and SuperMe.