AI Infrastructure: Build vs. Buy | Baseten

This post provides a comparative analysis of building vs. buying AI infrastructure, focusing on performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. It details Baseten's platform benefits, including ease of getting started with zero infrastructure experience, fast inference times, autoscaling, scale-to-zero features, and cost optimization through pay-per-compute models. It also highlights Baseten's self-hosted deployment option, dedicated forward-deployed engineer support, and security certifications (SOC II Type 2, HIPAA). The post includes insights from Chris Albon of the Wikimedia Foundation on strategic infrastructure investment.