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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire — Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models. The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models — which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a…
Previous development: Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
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- Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models. The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models — which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a rising technique known as abliteration. The company is framing their future work as a “standard” for open models that is transparent and built into how models are trained and deployed, rather than bolted on afterward. Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models.
- Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
On the platform front, Superhuman already has an email client, a docs app, a calendar, a database solution, and a newly launched AI agent builder platform. The notetaker offers a generous free plan, and that has resulted in over 400,000 monthly active users. Some of these factors did matter in Superhuman acquiring Fathom, while Fathom’s CEO Richard White said that Superhuman’s 40 million user base was a good opportunity to reach users at scale. Superhuman is joining the cadre of productivity platforms launching notetakers — but rather than building one internally, it is acquiring Y Combinator-backed Fathom.
- Anthropic reportedly signs $517 billion in compute deals after Dario Amodei warned rivals about reckless risk
OpenAI was above $40 billion as of July. Anthropic has signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months, according to The Information.