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Base Labs launches open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
2026-09-17
TechCrunch reported Sep 17, 2026 that Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier in 2026, launched an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire to develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
Significance 2: A new research partnership on open-model safety methods is a below-frontier context development per the rubric.
technology Safety / alignment Open weights
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- press Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire retrieved 2026-09-18