$25B flowing into AI resilience: The Launch Sequence RFP winding down next week
fiiiiiist · x · 2026-09-09
The Launch Sequence is a collection of concrete projects to prepare the world for advanced AI, focused on accelerating science, strengthening security, and adapting institutions. Context: over $25 billion is about to flow into AI resilience and AI-for-science from the OpenAI Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and other major funders — yet there is no shovel-ready list of essential projects and no critical mass of builders.
They opened the initiative for pitches, offering help developing ideas, connecting proposers with funders, and a $10,000 honorarium. Update: the RFP winds down a week from now; learnings and next steps will be shared in the following weeks. Pitches are still accepted until then, but with a high bar as the team pivots to a new focus area.
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