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

Baseten introduced research unit Base Labs, which together with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI will work on evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open model safety. The trigger was the practice of abliteration: Hugging Face already hosts more than 6,000 models with restrictions removed.

• Baseten launched Base Labs for open model safety standards
• Partners are Hugging Face and Goodfire AI
• More than 6,000 models with abliteration on Hugging Face
• Baseten raised $1.5 billion Series F at a $13 billion valuation