{"id":619189,"date":"2026-09-17T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:56:10","slug":"base-labs-launches-an-open-weight-ai-safety-partnership-with-hugging-face-and-goodfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619189\/","title":{"rendered":"Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baseten<\/a> launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models.<\/p>\n

The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models \u2014 which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a rising technique known as abliteration<\/a>. The scale of the problem is massive: Hugging Face, which hosts open source AI models, currently lists over 6,000 abliterated models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models. The company is framing their future work as a \u201cstandard\u201d for open models that is transparent and built into how models are trained and deployed, rather than bolted on afterward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe openness to be an advantage for AI safety,\u201d the company said on X<\/a>. \u201cOpenness provides more visibility into the behavior of models and, most importantly, greater means of turning safety research into actionable and transparent controls than closed-source.\u201d<\/p>\n

The companies haven\u2019t disclosed how the partnership will work technically, though Goodfire framed the goal in a reply to Baseten\u2019s post: \u201cSafety must be built into open models and provided by those who serve them.\u201d Goodfire, which specializes in opening AI\u2019s \u201cblack box\u201d to explain how models make decisions, is the likeliest candidate for the \u201cbuilt into\u201d part.<\/p>\n

Baseten, an AI inference provider, raised<\/a> a $1.5 billion Series F in June, vaulting its valuation to $13 billion. Partner Goodfire AI is similarly well-capitalized, having raised a $150 million Series B led by B Capital earlier this year to advance its model interpretability platform.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Baseten is putting out an open call to the broader developer ecosystem to contribute to the framework. \u201cTogether, we are building an ecosystem of open models that are safe and accessible to all,\u201d the company noted.<\/p>\n

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