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Baseten partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire for open-weight AI safety
TechCrunch reports that Base Labs is launching an initiative to build evaluation and monitoring tools for open-weight models.
The short version
- Baseten's research arm, Base Labs, has partnered with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to create standard safety infrastructure for open-weight artificial intelligence models.[TechCrunch]
- The initiative aims to address concerns regarding modified open models, including over 6,000 abliterated models that have had safety guardrails stripped.[TechCrunch]
- Baseten is inviting outside developer contributions while technical details on how the safety framework will operate have not been disclosed.[TechCrunch]
Key facts
- Baseten's Base Labs announced a partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure.[TechCrunch]
- Hugging Face currently hosts over 6,000 abliterated models that have had safeguards removed.[TechCrunch]
- Baseten secured $1.5 billion in a Series F funding round in June, valuing the AI inference provider at $13 billion.[TechCrunch]
- Goodfire AI raised $150 million earlier this year in a Series B round led by B Capital to advance its interpretability platform.[TechCrunch]
What remains uncertain
- The participating companies have not publicly detailed the specific technical mechanics of how the partnership will work.[TechCrunch]
Sources
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