Baseten adds three new components to its inference platform this week: Grid on Wednesday, Sandboxes on Thursday, and Loops on Friday. The launch expands routing, isolation, and serverless training capabilities.
Key points
Grid: gateway, intelligent router, and guardrails for coding agents, launching on Wednesday
Sandboxes: stateful, VM-isolated, co-located with inference, launching on Thursday
Loops: serverless RL and SFT on frontier open-weight models, GA on Friday
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Netflix severance policy and Keeper Test explanation
Netflix culture deck included “adequate performance gets a generous severance package.” Reed Hastings explained that severance packages are four to nine months of salary and described the Keeper Test as asking if you would try to keep someone who is quitting.
Key points
Severance packages range from four to nine months of salary.
Keeper Test: ask if you would try to keep an employee who is quitting.