Notable recent
Batch 4 (announced October 2024) included Goodfire, Silurian, Inception Labs, Haize Labs, Artificial Analysis, plus Granola, Pulse AI, Hamming, Agency, Pursuit, Graylark, Sync, Rowan, Vapi, Juicebox, Supertrace AI, InspectMind AI.
Documented grants (4)
- Goodfire (Batch 4) 2025-03-01 · $250K SAFE plus credits
Recipient: Goodfire
Mechanistic interpretability tooling for production LLM deployments. Selected for AI Grant Batch 4 with $250K SAFE plus Microsoft Azure and partner credits.
- Inception Labs (Batch 4) 2025-03-01 · $250K SAFE plus credits
Recipient: Inception Labs
Diffusion-based large language models. Selected for AI Grant Batch 4 with $250K SAFE plus Microsoft Azure and partner credits.
- Haize Labs (Batch 4) 2025-03-01 · $250K SAFE plus credits
Recipient: Haize Labs
Adversarial AI evaluation and red-teaming infrastructure. Selected for AI Grant Batch 4 with $250K SAFE plus Microsoft Azure and partner credits.
- Artificial Analysis (Batch 4) 2025-03-01 · $250K SAFE plus credits
Recipient: Artificial Analysis
Independent benchmarks and evaluations of frontier AI models. Selected for AI Grant Batch 4 with $250K SAFE plus Microsoft Azure and partner credits.
Process
Application; selection by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and partners.
Cadence
Annual batches