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

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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1. TechCrunch AIPrimary source · Supports · EN · 100%
   Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire ↗Sep 17, 2026, 1:15 PM

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

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1. September 17, 2026 at 1:15 PMFirst reported

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