Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire to launch open-weight AI safety standard
Base Labs, the research arm of AI inference provider Baseten, announced a new safety‑infrastructure standard for open‑weight models in partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI. The trio aims to create evaluation and monitoring tools that are built into model training and deployment, rather than added after release. The move comes as the community grapples with “abliteration,” a technique…
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- Base Labs, Hugging Face, and Goodfire AI launch a safety‑infrastructure standard for open‑weight models.
- Hugging Face hosts over 6,000 abliterated models that have had safety safeguards removed.
- Baseten raised a $1.5 B Series F, valuing it at $13 B; Goodfire raised $150 M Series B.
Baseten, which raised a $1.5 billion Series F in June valuing the company at $13 billion, said openness can actually aid safety by giving researchers visibility into model behavior and enabling transparent controls. Goodfire, a specialist in model interpretability, is expected to supply the “built‑in” safety components. The partnership also includes an open call for developers to contribute to the framework, aiming to build an ecosystem of safe, accessible open models.
Goodfire AI recently secured a $150 million Series B led by B Capital to expand its interpretability platform, underscoring growing investor interest in AI safety infrastructure.
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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
TechCrunch AI · 17 September 2026
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