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Epoch AI is a research organization dedicated to producing rigorous, data-driven forecasts and analysis about artificial intelligence progress, with particular focus on compute trends, training datasets, algorithmic efficiency, and AI timelines.

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Funding Rounds

$23Mtotal raised
Funding Rounds. Open Philanthropy General Support (2022) (Jun 2022): $2M raised; Open Philanthropy AI Worldview Investigations (2023) (Feb 2023): $189K raised; Carl Shulman General Support (2023) (Mar 2023): $100K raised; Open Philanthropy General Support (2023) (Apr 2023): $6.9M raised; Open Philanthropy General Support (2024) (Apr 2024): $4.1M raised; Sentinel Bio Biological AI Tracking (2024) (Sep 2024): $80K raised; Likith Govindaiah General Support (2025) (Jan 2025): $400K raised; Leopold Aschenbrenner Benchmark Pilot (2025) (Jan 2025): $200K raised; Jaan Tallinn General Support (2025) (Jan 2025): $600K raised; Open Philanthropy FrontierMath Improvements (2025) (Mar 2025): $70K raised; Open Philanthropy General Support (2025) (Apr 2025): $8.5M raised; Sentinel Bio Biological AI Tracking (2025) (Sep 2025): $85K raised. Total: $23M.$0$2.4M$4.9M$7.3M$9.8M2022202320242025Open Philanthropy General Support (2022)Open Philanthropy AI Worldview Investigations (2023)Carl Shulman General Support (2023)Open Philanthropy General Support (2023)Open Philanthropy General Support (2024)Sentinel Bio Biological AI Tracking (2024)Likith Govindaiah General Support (2025)Leopold Aschenbrenner Benchmark Pilot (2025)Jaan Tallinn General Support (2025)Open Philanthropy FrontierMath Improvements (2025)Open Philanthropy General Support (2025)Sentinel Bio Biological AI Tracking (2025)
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Websitehttps://epochai.org

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Team·Yafah Edelman

Maintains the Parameter, Compute and Data Trends database — one of the most cited datasets on ML model scaling. Tracks 700+ notable ML systems.

Team·Jaime Sevilla

Research on AI trends, forecasting, and compute scaling. Publishes influential analyses on training compute trends, parameter counts, and dataset sizes.

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Approaches

AI Governance Coordination TechnologiesEval Saturation & The Evals Gap

Analysis

AI Safety Multi-Actor Strategic LandscapeFlexHEG (Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees)

Policy

US Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AIEU AI Act

Concepts

Compute ThresholdsExistential Risk from AISuperintelligenceReasoning and PlanningLarge Language Models

Organizations

Rethink PrioritiesMetaculus

Key Debates

Why Alignment Might Be HardIs AI Existential Risk Real?

Other

Dustin MoskovitzSam Altman

Risks

AI Knowledge MonopolyEmergent Capabilities

Historical

Deep Learning Revolution Era