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

Written and edited by the WorldPing NewsdeskPublished Updated Original reporting: TechCrunch

What happened

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.

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  • Reported by TechCrunch and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:15:59 UTC.

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