Baseten launches open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire

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Baseten announced a safety infrastructure standard through its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring systems for open-weight models. The partnership responds to growing concerns about open-weight model safety, particularly through abliteration techniques that remove safeguards. Hugging Face currently hosts over 6,000 abliterated models.

Base Labs will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models, positioning its work as a transparent standard built into model training and deployment rather than added afterwards. The companies argue that openness provides visibility into model behaviour and enables more actionable and transparent safety controls than closed-source approaches. Technical details of how the partnership will operate remain undisclosed.

Baseten, an AI inference provider valued at 13 billion dollars after a June funding round, and Goodfire AI, which raised 150 million dollars for its model interpretability platform, are inviting broader developer contributions to the framework. The partnership aims to build an ecosystem of safe and accessible open models, which may shape how job-seekers in AI infrastructure roles approach safety considerations when using tools like Ceeve to target positions in this growing sector.

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