Baseten and Goodfire AI launch Project Beacon to introduce safety signals into open model inference

Baseten announced a collaboration with Goodfire AI to launch Project Beacon, introducing proactive safety controls into the model inference layer by reading internal activation values during model generation. The solution addresses risks such as prompt injection, unauthorized operations, sensitive data leaks, and network abuse. An activation probe and text monitoring classify each request in parallel, then approve, reject, fallback, or log based on customer policies. Monitoring runs in parallel with generation without blocking responses. Over the next few months, it will first cover select models and monitored behaviors before expanding to enterprise governance and developer experience.