Labs' $10M AI Safety Fund grants went to many of their own evaluators

kevinnbass · x · 2026-10-17

Evidence from kevinnbass's thread: in October 2023 Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, the Frontier Model Forum's founding members, announced an AI Safety Fund of more than $10 million, with Jaan Tallinn among philanthropic partners; its 2024-2025 grants went to FAR.AI, Apollo Research, Nemesys Insights, SecureBio, OpenMined and Faculty, with no per-grantee amounts disclosed. Separately, OpenAI's nonprofit reported $333,333 grants to the Center for AI Safety in each of 2023 and 2024 for "research to ensure AI safety".

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