signalTechCrunch AI2026-09-18
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten's Base Labs launched a safety infrastructure standard with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build evaluation and monitoring for open-weight models, addressing the 6,000+ abliterated models hosted on Hugging Face. Goodfire, which raised a $150M Series B led by B Capital for model interpretability, will likely handle the "built-in" safety mechanisms, while Baseten ($1.5B Series F, $13B valuation) issued an open call for developer contributions to the framework.
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