Ought-Backed Epistemics Fund Offers $500K–$5M for Community Notes, Provenance and Forecasting Tools
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-11-10
The Epistemics Fund, sponsored by Ought and organized by Nathan Young, launched on Lightcone Commons with plans to grant $500k–$5M to top projects. Applications close November 26; every application also enters the standard Lightcone Commons round for other funders to back.
The fund seeks tools that help people find what's true faster and at scale: community notes (AI note writers, rating tools, infrastructure), fact-checking beyond social media (podcasts, papers, video), provenance (C2PA, reverse video search, synthetic-frame detection), public-figure reliability tracking, forecasting and prediction-market tools, and credible plans for government adoption of decision-making tools.
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