Goodfire Research, BasetenGoodfire Research · 2 sources · 2 reports · Goodfire and Baseten partner to launch Project Beacon safety monitoring
Goodfire and Baseten are collaborating on Project Beacon, integrating Goodfire's safety stack into the Baseten inference platform, defining policies by reading the model's internal activations during generation, detecting and handling unsafe events before outputs reach users or tools, covering four risk categories: prompt injection, unauthorized operations, sensitive data leakage, and network abuse. Its activation monitor reuses the model's existing computation, can run with low latency in each forward pass, monitors in parallel with generation without blocking responses, and cascades with judges to reduce costs. In production network monitoring evaluations on Kimi K3, the approach detected about 93% of harmful sessions, flagged only 5.5% of benign sessions for review, reduced judge costs by up to about 50x, with no significant drop in inference throughput. Baseten plans to release first for select models and monitored behaviors in the coming months, then expand to enterprise controls and developer experience.
