“Located in the heart of Quebec’s AI ecosystem, Mila is a community of more than 1,400 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation.”In its own words: mila.quebec
Montreal AI research institute founded in 1993 by Yoshua Bengio; its researchers work on aligning and controlling AI systems, alongside AI governance and policy work.
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Led by Valérie Pisano (President and CEO), Hugo Larochelle (Scientific Director), Yoshua Bengio (Founder)Checked 25 Oct 2026
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12 grants totalling $12M, newest first.
2025 5 grants · $2.8M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $196k | Off-target Effects of Fine-tuning in LLMs (Aly Kassem and Golnoosh Farnadi) source |
| Jul 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $310k | Mechanistic Interpretability Research (Danilo Bzdok) source |
| Jun 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $1.9M | AI Safety Projects source |
| Jun 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $320k | AI Safety and Governance Fellowship source |
| Jun 2025 | Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR | $72k | CAISI AI Safety Catalyst Grant (first round): Sampling latent explanations from LLMs for safe and interpretable reasoning. CA$100,000 for one year, at CA$1 = US$0.72 source |
2024 4 grants · $6.5M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $29k | SFF-2024-FlexHEGs: General support source |
| 29 Jul 2024 | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $4M | SFF's own grant, paid by Jaan Tallinn: This gift is for unrestricted general support for Safe AI for Humanity a portion of which may be allocated for related overhead costs source |
| May 2024 | Coefficient Giving | $2M | AI Safety Research source |
| 2024 | Future of Life Institute | $447k | Simulations testing defenses against AI-powered discourse manipulation. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants source |
2023 1 grant · $50k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
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| May 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $50k | Mila — Workshop on Human-Level AI — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $50,000 to Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute to support a workshop on human-level artificial intelligence, led by Professor Jacob Steinhardt,... [Navigating Transformative AI; Coefficient G source |
2021 1 grant · $238k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
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| Nov 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $238k | Grant "to support a research project investigating AI consciousness and moral patienthood. The research will be conducted in collaboration with the Université de Montréal and the Future of Humanity Institute. This funding will support.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via source |
2017 1 grant · $2.4M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2017 | Navigating Transformative AI | $2.4M | Grant "to support technical research on potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence (AI). $1.6 million of this grant will support Professor Yoshua Bengio and his co-investigators at the Université de Montréal, and $800,000.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via O source |