Amir Haghighat
Co-founder and CTO of Baseten, the AI inference platform
Amir Haghighat is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Baseten, which runs inference for open and custom AI models. Haghighat's posts on the Baseten blog include a 2025 write-up, co-authored with Tri Dao, Abu Qader, Bryce Dubayah and Philip Kiely, on optimizing GPT OSS 120B for latency and throughput on launch day.12
Baseten
Haghighat is listed on Baseten's blog as CTO and co-founder. In March 2026, Haghighat announced that Sameer Paranjpye had joined Baseten to lead its engineering organization.14
Haghighat's technical writing for the company includes an August 2025 account of day-zero performance work on GPT OSS 120B, written with Tri Dao, Abu Qader, Bryce Dubayah and Philip Kiely, and a December 2025 post with Alex Ker on infrastructure lessons for running AI in production, covering reliability, speed and developer control.23
Work
GPT OSS 120B performance optimization on Baseten (external site: baseten.co)Proprietary product
First-listed author of Baseten's August 2025 write-up on running GPT OSS 120B at high throughput on NVIDIA GPUs, covering first inference, compatibility bug fixes and model configuration tuning.2
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