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title: "OpenAI Makes Baseten Exclusive Open Source Provider for B2B Marketplace"
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summary: "Corporate clients can now apply their OpenAI contract credits toward the use of open-source tokens managed by Baseten. The infrastructure firm has joined the OpenAI B2B marketplace as the exclusive provider for open-model inference, enabling enterprise users to integrate frontier open-source models natively within Codex and the Responses API. The partnership allows AI companies to operate a mix of proprietary and open-source models at scale without needing separate payment agreements for each. By permitting existing OpenAI spending commitments to cover Baseten's inference services, OpenAI is incorporating a hybrid model ecosystem into its enterprise offering."
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# OpenAI Makes Baseten Exclusive Open Source Provider for B2B Marketplace

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**Published:** 2026-09-29T18:23:08.000Z
**Category:** Infra
**Topics:** openai, open\-source

## Summary

Corporate clients can now apply their OpenAI contract credits toward the use of open\-source tokens managed by Baseten\. The infrastructure firm has joined the OpenAI B2B marketplace as the exclusive provider for open\-model inference, enabling enterprise users to integrate frontier open\-source models natively within Codex and the Responses API\. The partnership allows AI companies to operate a mix of proprietary and open\-source models at scale without needing separate payment agreements for each\. By permitting existing OpenAI spending commitments to cover Baseten's inference services, OpenAI is incorporating a hybrid model ecosystem into its enterprise offering\.

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- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/openai-makes-baseten-exclusive-open-source-provider-for-b2b-marketplace-a1c4a246>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/openai-makes-baseten-exclusive-open-source-provider-for-b2b-marketplace-a1c4a246>)