GoKawiilBaseten's Base Labs teams with Hugging Face and Goodfire on open-model safety standard
Baseten's newly formed research arm, Base Labs, announced a partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI on Wednesday to develop safety evaluation and monitoring tools for open-weight AI models. The effort aims to create a shared standard that embeds safety directly into how models are trained and deployed, rather than adding it after release. Technical details of how the collaboration will function have not yet been disclosed.
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Open-weight models are increasingly vulnerable to 'abliteration,' a technique that strips built-in safeguards, and Hugging Face already hosts thousands of such altered models, showing how widespread the risk has become. With Baseten valued at $13 billion and Goodfire freshly funded at a $150 million Series B, this partnership signals serious capital and industry weight behind making open models safer without sacrificing their transparency advantages over closed systems.
- Base Labs, Hugging Face, and Goodfire AI are jointly building safety infrastructure for open-weight models.
- Over 6,000 'abliterated' models on Hugging Face highlight the scale of the safeguard-removal problem.
- The initiative seeks to establish an industry-wide open standard, inviting broader developer participation.
Source: techcrunch.com — Russell Brandom, 2026-09-17
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