Base Labs Launches Open-Weight AI Safety Partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research arm of AI inference provider Baseten, has partnered with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build a transparent safety evaluation and…
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SaferAI warns open-weight GLM-5.2 is closing the frontier capability gap — without frontier safety
Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 is only months behind leading AI models on cyber and bio capabilities, yet refused none of the dangerous tasks SaferAI set it…
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Fireworks AI Launches Nexus, a Routing Layer to Cut Coding AI Costs Without Sacrificing Quality
Fireworks Nexus routes routine coding tasks to cheaper open-weight models while keeping difficult requests on frontier models. Independent evaluations show cost savings of 3–5x without…
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Anthropic CEO clarifies stance on open-weight models: no ban, but warns of Chinese AI risks
Dario Amodei says Anthropic never advocated for a ban on open-weight models, but fears China’s authoritarian use of AI. He backs global safety testing and…
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Panic Over Chinese AI Models: A Familiar Pattern, or a Genuine Threat?
The launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi model has reignited debates about US competitiveness, open-source AI, and regulatory fears. TechCrunch’s Equity podcast breaks down the recurring…
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US Lab Arcee Says Chinese Open-Weight AI Models Are Not Inherently Dangerous
US open-source AI lab Arcee challenges the notion that Chinese open-weight AI models pose an inherent security threat, even as their popularity grows among US…
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