# Hugging Face — 🐶Safetensors audited as really safe and becoming the default

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-05-23
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-security-audit
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2057-safetensors-audited-as-really-safe-and-becoming-the-default
- Subject: Platform

Following a security audit by Trail of Bits, Hugging Face, EleutherAI, and Stability AI plan to make safetensors the default format for saved models, citing its safety and speed advantages.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-security-audit:

> Audit shows that safetensors is safe and ready to become the default

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