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Frontier Model Forum

aka AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum)
NonprofitAI Safety & Existential Risk FundingActivewww.frontiermodelforum.orgX ↗
The Frontier Model Forum is an industry-backed non-profit founded by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, focused on frontier AI safety best practices, research, and information-sharing with policymakers. It manages the AI Safety Fund, which awards grants for independent research addressing critical safety and security risks of frontier AI models, with current priority areas in biosecurity, cybersecurity, AI agent evaluation, and synthetic content.1,2

Programs

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Awards

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  1. Apollo Research
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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    DateDec 11, 2025
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  2. California Institute of Technology
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  3. Faculty AI
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  4. FAR.AI
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  5. FutureHouse, Inc.
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  6. Institute for Decentralized AI (part of Cosmos Institute)
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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    DateDec 11, 2025
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  7. Morgan State University
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  8. Nemesys Insights LLC
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  9. SecureBio
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  10. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  11. University of Toronto
    ProgramAISF Round Two (Dec 2025)
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  12. AI Safety Cape Town
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  13. Apollo Research
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  14. Center for Democracy & Technology (AI Governance Lab)
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  15. Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  16. ETH Zurich
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  17. Francis Ward (Imperial College London)
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  18. Nemesys Insights, LLC
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  19. New York University
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  20. OpenMined Foundation
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  21. SecureBio
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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  22. Stanford University
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  23. Virtue AI
    ProgramAISF Round One (Summer 2024)
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Active programs
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Status
Focus Areas

AI safety, AI security, biosecurity, cybersecurity, AI agent evaluation, synthetic content, third-party model evaluations.

Typical sizeProposed budgets up to $500,000 per grant; most recent cohort awarded over $5M across 11 grantees
CadenceCompetitive funding rounds via periodic RFPs (Round One Nov 2024; Round Two Dec 2025)
Sources
  1. www.frontiermodelforum.org
  2. www.frontiermodelforum.org/ai-safety-fund