Base Labs recruits Hugging Face and Goodfire for open-weight AI safety

Baseten's research arm plans to publish training and monitoring methods, though its proposed safety standard still lacks a technical specification.

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Baseten is trying to make inference providers part of open-model safety. A reproducible standard could give developers controls that remain visible across training, modification and deployment.

A small group of researchers analyze complex data structures on a large screen in a modern lab.

Baseten, founded by Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, Phil Howes and Pankaj Gupta, launched an open-weight AI safety partnership through its Base Labs research arm on September 17th, bringing Hugging Face and Goodfire into an effort to develop public methods for training, evaluating and monitoring open models.…

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