Thom Wolf partners with Baselabs, Baseten and Goodfire on open-model safety research
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-17
- Thom Wolf, Hugging Face co-founder and chief scientist, announced a collaboration with Baselabs, Baseten and GoodfireAI to push safety and interpretability research for open models.
- He argues that as open-source models catch up with frontier performance, the community has a real opportunity to set common standards for safety, security and interpretability — and pushes back on conflating "open" with "unmonitored," noting open models actually offer more tooling and visibility for safety research.
- He cites Linux as proof that open source and secure deployment are deeply intertwined. The quoted post references the OpenAI agent swarm attack on Hugging Face as the kind of failure mode the community must prepare for, with serving providers like Baseten playing a key role in setting monitoring standards.
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