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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Publisher description: Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
TechCrunch | Sep 17, 2026 | Russell Brandom
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Baseten 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. The scale of the problem is massive: Hugging Face, which hosts open-source AI models, currently lists over 6,000 abliterated models. 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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