Baseten and Goodfire AI launch Project Beacon, bringing inline safety controls to open model inference
Project Beacon: Bringing safety signals to open models at scale
Baseten announced a partnership with Goodfire AI to launch Project Beacon, introducing proactive, inline safety controls at the model inference layer, defining policies by reading the model's internal activations during generation, and detecting and disposing of unsafe events before outputs reach users or tools. The approach targets four risk categories—prompt injection, unauthorized actions, sensitive data leakage, and network abuse—combining activation probes with text monitoring, with monitoring running in parallel with generation without blocking response generation. Baseten plans to first release for select models and monitored behaviors in the coming months, then expand to enterprise controls and developer experience, and bring it to market with a small set of early partners.