Notable recent
10 regrantors with $2M+ to deploy in 2025; supports Timaeus, ChinaTalk, Epoch AI benchmark pilot, SaferAI, others.
Documented grants (3)
- Frontier AI benchmark pilot 2024-09-01 · $200K
Recipient: Epoch AI
Regrant from Leopold Aschenbrenner supporting Epoch AI's pilot of a new frontier AI benchmark, building on their earlier compute-trends and capability-tracking work.
- China and AI deep coverage 2024-06-01 · Undisclosed
Recipient: ChinaTalk (Jordan Schneider)
Support for ChinaTalk's coverage of Chinese AI policy and the DeepSeek lab, ahead of the curve on what became major US policy debates.
- Scoping Developmental Interpretability (Timaeus first funding) 2024-03-01 · Undisclosed
Recipient: Jesse Hoogland (Timaeus)
First funding for the Timaeus team's developmental interpretability research program. Manifund regrant accelerated their research by months and seeded what is now an established alignment lab.
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Regrantors initiate; Manifund acts as fiscal sponsor; all grants public on the platform.
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