Thom Wolf Partners with Baseten and Goodfire on Open Model Safety Infrastructure

On September 17, Hugging Face co-founder and chief scientist Thom Wolf announced a collaboration with Base Labs, Baseten, and Goodfire to advance safety and interpretability research for open models. Related parties announced the effort on the same day, with broad amplification across the community.

Confirmed

• Thom Wolf stated the collaboration focuses on the safety, security, and interpretability of open models, stressing that open models are catching up with frontier closed models and that the community has an opportunity to establish shared safety research practices.
• Baseten and its research arm Base Labs announced safety infrastructure for open models, arguing that openness is itself an advantage for AI safety: open models offer more visibility into model behavior and make it easier to turn safety research into executable, transparent controls.
• Goodfire joined the effort, saying safety should be built into open models and provided by serving platforms, and that open models are the foundation of much safety research.
• Division of labor: Base Labs is responsible for developing and releasing the related work (details per each party's announcements).

Why it matters

• The initiative comes as open models rapidly close the gap with frontier closed models; the partners aim to show that openness and safety are not opposed but complementary, with transparency offering structural advantages.
• Spanning model research (Base Labs), inference serving (Baseten), and interpretability tooling (Goodfire), the collaboration could provide the open ecosystem with reusable safety infrastructure and shared practices.

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