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Money out
- T19 to METR: in_kind $0.40M, 2026-07. API credits for the Hugging Face incident investigation, METR estimate confirmedhttps://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
- T23 to SecureBio: contract undisclosed, 2026. OpenAI covered the cost of the GPT-5.5 evaluation confirmedhttps://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dMfgJQ2rGX8GmzdMm/thoughts-on-taking-openai-foundation-funding
- T25 to Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs): contract undisclosed, 2023-2025. paid evaluation engagements; millions in annual revenue across lab clients confirmedhttps://www.newswire.com/news/irregular-raises-80-million-to-set-the-security-standards-for-frontier-ai
- T34 to Epoch AI: contract undisclosed, 2024. OpenAI commissioned FrontierMath problems and owns them; paid consultation client per transparency page confirmedhttps://epoch.ai/latest/openai-and-frontiermath
- T46 to UK AI Security Institute: grant $7.50M, 2025. GBP 5.6m into the Alignment Project grant pool administered by AISI, alongside Anthropic, Microsoft, AWS and others confirmedhttps://openai.com/index/advancing-independent-research-ai-alignment/
- T78 to UK AI Security Institute: commitment undisclosed, 2026-02. GBP 5.6m into the Alignment Project (£27m total); GBP not converted unauditedhttps://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/funding-60-projects-to-advance-ai-alignment-research
Roles held
- R35 pays at AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum), 2023. AI Safety Fund is supported by the Frontier Model Forum members confirmedhttps://far.ai/news/30m-multi-funder-support
- R61 pays at UK AI Security Institute, 2025. into the Alignment Project pool; imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:EV11 importedhttps://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants
Roles hosted
- R12 FAR.AI: contractor, 2025. GPT-5 system card: FAR.AI conducted 80 hours of red-teaming; imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:B17 importedhttps://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card/
- R25 Sequoia Capital: investor. widely reported OpenAI backer confirmedhttps://sequoiacap.com/
- R28 Zico Kolter: board, 2024-08. chairs Safety and Security Committee confirmedhttps://openai.com/index/zico-kolter-joins-openais-board-of-directors/
- R31 David Farhi: employee, 2018. imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:DR13 importedhttps://openai.com/
- R34 OpenAI Foundation: investor. foundation endowment is a stake in OpenAI Group PBC; boards largely overlap confirmedhttps://openai.com/
- R48 Miles Brundage: employee, 2018 to 2024-10. former confirmedhttps://www.averi.org/about
- R65 OpenAI employees (personal holdings): employee. group entity confirmedhttps://transluce.org/independence-and-transparency-policy
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