Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Received $21M from 5 funders
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10 grants totalling $21M, newest first.
2026 4 grants · $2M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2026 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $257k | Mathematics for Safe AI (grant, 12 months); £202,324 incl. VAT source |
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Vaikuntanathan, Vinod): Verification, Robustness and Alignment through a Cryptographic Lens. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Vaikuntanathan, Vinod): Backdoors and Cryptographic Hardness in Neural Networks. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Williams, Ryan): Exploring The Role of Relativization and Problem Extensions in AI Safety. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
2024 1 grant · $150k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Superalignment Fast Grants (OpenAI) | $150k | OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship for graduate students (one year: $75K stipend + $75K compute and research funding, per the programme page); weak supervision research. Year inferred from the 2024 award cycle source |
2023 1 grant · $2.9M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $2.9M | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,911,324 over four years to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to support research led by Neil Thompson on modeling the trends and impacts of AI and.. source |
2022 2 grants · $14M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $1M | Deception and truthfulness in language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
| Mar 2022 | Navigating Transformative AI | $13M | Grant to "support research led by Neil Thompson on modeling the trends and impacts of AI and computing. Thompson will use this funding to hire new staff and expand his lab work.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2021 1 grant · $1.4M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $1.4M | Grant "to support research by Professor Aleksandr Madry on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2020 1 grant · $551k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2020 | Navigating Transformative AI | $551k | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020) — Grant investigators: Luke Muehlhauser This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open.. source |