Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire on AI safety initiative

Base Labs, the research group that AI infrastructure company Baseten spun up earlier this year, is joining forces with Hugging Face and Goodfire to develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models. The collaboration puts three organizations with very different specialties, inference infrastructure, model hosting, and interpretability, on the same page about a problem that’s gotten increasingly hard to ignore: making open AI models safer without making them less open. The initiative arrives at a moment when the AI industry is grappling with a series of safety incidents involving autonomous agents in mid-2026, events that have pushed the conversation about open-model security from academic curiosity to boardroom priority. What the partnership actually involves Base Labs will focus on developing and publishing methodologies for training open models with stronger safety properties and for monitoring those models once they’re deployed in production. Baseten plans to integrate the research outputs directly into its existing deployment infrastructure, enabling live runtime monitoring of AI models running on Baseten’s platform as a managed service. Hugging Face brings it...