Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire on open-weight AI safety

Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire

Base Labs, the research arm spun out of Baseten, is teaming up with Hugging Face and Goodfire to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models. They plan to publish methods for training and monitoring, directly addressing the risk of models being made dangerous via abliteration. The post doesn't detail the technical roadmap or timeline, but the partner lineup makes this more concrete than a typical safety pledge.

Why it matters: Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire to build safety infra for open-weight models, directly targeting abliteration attacks — not a vague 'safety initiative.' Hits all three HKR: sharp angle, concrete partners and public methodology, and resonates with teams deploy...