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95 Percent of Base10 Tokens Come From Custom Post-Trained AI Models

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published May 4, 2026 · Updated May 4, 2026 · No Priors Podcast · Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on the AI Inference Crunch, Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
95 Percent of Base10 Tokens Come From Custom Post-Trained AI Models
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Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on the AI Inference Crunch, Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud

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"95% of the tokens today are on the first business and almost all of them, there's probably a, yeah, for almost all of them, the customer's making some modifications to the model with their own data specialized for the use case."

The vast majority of AI inference workloads at Base10 involve custom models that companies have post-trained for their specific use cases, rather than vanilla open-source models. This demonstrates how the AI market is maturing beyond generic foundation models toward specialized applications with proprietary data and workflows.

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