Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
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Safety tooling is starting to follow the open-weight model ecosystem—methods for training and monitoring open models are becoming shared infrastructure rather than bespoke work. If you’re betting on open weights, track this stack now so you’re not rebuilding evals and monitoring from scratch in 6–12 months.
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