METR raised $71M in 6 months — a 5x jump — but only $350K in funding is traceable
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-17
kevinnbass audited public records and found METR — the AI safety evals org promoted by Dario Amodei — raised $71M over the past six months, a sudden 5x jump. Yet only $350K of that $71M is traceable in public records, raising transparency questions about how the premier AI safety organization is funded. The post includes figure dumps and a GitHub thread. (Original source of this discussion; the second tweet is a duplicate repost.)
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