Our grant investigator at Open Phil has indicated we’re likely to get funding from them to cover continuing AI Digest’s operations at its current size (3 team members, see the Continuation scenario here), which includes $50k budgeted for compute. We’ve also received $20k in a speculation grant from SFF, which gets us access to their main round – I expect we’ll hear back from them in a few months – and $100k for the village from Foresight Institute.
Note that here, Daniel’s making the case for increasing the village’s compute budget in particular, which would let us run a more ambitious version of the village (moving towards running it 24⁄7, adding more than 4 agents, or trying more compute-expensive scaffolding).
Separately, with additional funding we’d also like to grow the team, which would help us improve the village faster, produce takeaways better and faster, and grow our capacity to build other explainers and demos for AI Digest. There’s more detail on funding scenarios in our Manifund application.
Have they tried getting money from Open Phil? (Or possibly other large funders.)
Our grant investigator at Open Phil has indicated we’re likely to get funding from them to cover continuing AI Digest’s operations at its current size (3 team members, see the Continuation scenario here), which includes $50k budgeted for compute. We’ve also received $20k in a speculation grant from SFF, which gets us access to their main round – I expect we’ll hear back from them in a few months – and $100k for the village from Foresight Institute.
Note that here, Daniel’s making the case for increasing the village’s compute budget in particular, which would let us run a more ambitious version of the village (moving towards running it 24⁄7, adding more than 4 agents, or trying more compute-expensive scaffolding).
Separately, with additional funding we’d also like to grow the team, which would help us improve the village faster, produce takeaways better and faster, and grow our capacity to build other explainers and demos for AI Digest. There’s more detail on funding scenarios in our Manifund application.
(I originally read the “they” to mean the AI agents themselves, would be cool if Open Phil did answer them directly)