individual · Manifund
Technical AI safety researchAI safety metaAI safety fieldbuilding
| Long-Term Future Fund | $140,000 | 82% | 2 |
| Neel Nanda | $13,000 | 8% | 1 |
| AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund | $10,000 | 6% | 1 |
| Ryan Kidd | $3,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Austin Chen | $2,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Callum McDougall | $2,000 | 1% | 1 |
Neel Nanda · Manifund · full post · Jul 7, 2025
TransformerLens - Bridge Funding, Jul 2025
Read more ▾Show less ▴I suggested Bryce apply, and have funded this for two months. Open source research tooling is really valuable for accelerating the work of people outside big orgs, TransformerLens is pretty popular, and I've often heard complaints about the problem this is solving.
Conflict of interest: I created transformerlens (though haven't been involved for a while), and several of my projects would benefit from this tooling, though only as a side effect of this benefitting the interp community as a whole. I don't financially benefit in any way from this
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2025 | AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund | Manifund | $10,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | TransformerLens - Bridge Funding |
| Aug 5, 2025 | Austin Chen | Manifund | $2,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | TransformerLens - Bridge Funding |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Callum McDougall | Manifund | $2,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | TransformerLens - Bridge Funding |
| Jul 19, 2025 | Ryan Kidd | Manifund | $3,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | TransformerLens - Bridge Funding |
| Jul 7, 2025 | Neel Nanda | Manifund | $13,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | TransformerLens - Bridge Funding |
| Apr 2024 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $90,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Year-long stipend to work as the primary maintainer of TransformerLens, and implement large changes to the code base. |
| Apr 2023 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $50,000 | Interpretability, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary to build & enhance open-source mechanistic interpretability tooling for AI safety researchers |