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Policy2026-09-18 · source-backed
Announced September 17, Baseten's Base Labs will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models with safety built into training rather than bolted on. The stated problem is abliteration, the removal of safety guardrails from open weights, and Hugging Face currently hosts over 6,000 abliterated models. It's a commitment to publish methods rather than a shipped artifact, so the thing to check in three months is whether anything concrete exists.
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TechCrunch strings together three deals: Nvidia's reported $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition, its $6 billion Poolside arrangement, and Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for over $7 billion about two weeks before August 28. The thesis is acquirers hedging against frontier-l...
$12,930,300,000. Not "about $13 billion." That exact figure is in Jensen Huang's September 3 post, and the precision is the first sign this is a signed agreement rather than the leak-stage reporting we got in late August. NVIDIA's blog frames the platform in the numbers that m...
Salesforce released Koa, built by post-training Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Nvidia's open-weight hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE with 120B total and 12B active parameters (TechCrunch, paper at arXiv 2609.15066). The training was GRPO reinforcement learning on public and synthetic data...
Baseten's Series F closed June 22 led by Altimeter, Conviction, and Spark, with revenue up ~20x YoY and more than 1 billion inference calls a day across 87 clusters and 18 clouds. The model layer gets the headlines, but inference at the app layer is where this round says the m...
K3 and K3 Fast are now available from Baseten and Fireworks among others, which matters for teams wanting the leading open-weights model without routing prompts to China-based inference. ZDR toggles globally in the dashboard or per-request via zeroDataRetention. Vercel publish...
Announced July 27 with Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Palantir, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Databricks, Hugging Face, LangChain, Nous Research, Reflection AI, Thinking Machines Lab, SpaceXAI and the Linux Foundation. Huang's framing is pointed: during the Hugging Face incident "closed...
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