Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten's Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire to build safety evaluation and monitoring standards for open-weight models.
Baseten launched its Base Labs research arm and a partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to create safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models, framed as a transparent safety standard built into training and deployment. Hugging Face currently lists over 6,000 abliterated models whose safeguards have been removed. Baseten raised a $1.5 billion Series F in June at a $13 billion valuation, while Goodfire raised a $150 million Series B led by B Capital; technical details of the partnership were not disclosed.
- Hugging Face hosts more than 6,000 abliterated models with safeguards removed
- Base Labs will publish open methods for training and monitoring open models
- Goodfire's interpretability platform is expected to provide built-in model transparency
- Baseten raised a $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation in June
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Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
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