Base Labs Launches Open-Weight AI Safety Partnership With Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten-founded research group aims to develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open AI models.
Base Labs, a research group spun up earlier this year by AI infrastructure company Baseten, has launched a new AI safety partnership involving Hugging Face and Goodfire, according to a report by TechCrunch.
The initiative, described in the report, will focus on developing and publishing methods for training and monitoring open-weight AI models, TechCrunch reported.
Details on the specific technical approaches, timeline, or scope of the collaboration were not disclosed in the available source material.
Base Labs was established by Baseten earlier this year, according to the report. Hugging Face is a widely used platform for hosting and sharing open-source machine learning models, while Goodfire is an AI research organization; the report did not provide further specifics on their respective roles in the partnership.
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