Safetensors

Audit shows that safetensors is safe and ready to become the default Hugging Face, in close collaboration with EleutherAI and Stability AI, has ordered an external security audit of the safetensors library, the results of which allow all three organizations to move toward making the library the default format for saved models. The full results of the security audit, performed by Trail of Bits, can be found here: Report. The following blog post explains the origins of the library, why these audit results are important, and the next steps.