Baseten launches open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
baseten partnered with hugging face and goodfire ai to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models, amid debate on their safety. this affects open-source ai developers and the broader ai industry.
baseten, an ai inference provider, launched a new safety infrastructure standard with its base labs research arm, partnering with hugging face and goodfire ai. they will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models, aiming to create a transparent and built-in standard. this partnership addresses the safety concerns of open-weight models, with over 6,000 abliterated models listed on hugging face. baseten raised $1.5 billion in june, and goodfire ai raised $150 million earlier this year. the companies are calling for contributions from the broader developer ecosystem to the framework.