Trace

Leo Gao

individual

Total granted
$150,100
Grants
16
Average size
$9,381
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2024–26

Grants over time

$0$50K$100K$150K$200K202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Technical AI safety research$80,00053%8
Other$40,10027%5
AI safety fieldbuilding$20,00013%2
Other existential risk$10,0007%1

Biggest recipients

Nickola Horozov$10,0007%1
James Calder Knight$10,0007%1
Joshua Reiners$10,0007%1
Noah MacAulay$10,0007%1
Flourishing Futures Fellowship$10,0007%1
Suzy Shepherd$10,0007%1
Aleksei Chebotarev$10,0007%1
Jack Maiorino$10,0007%1

Grants made

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jul 27, 2026Nickola HorozovManifund$10,000InterpretabilitymanifundInterpreting Latent Reasoning Models with Natural Language Autoencoders
Jul 22, 2026James Calder KnightManifund$10,000Other existential riskmanifundModelling Takeoff
Jul 18, 2026Joshua ReinersManifund$10,000OthermanifundCreating a better way to compile to transformer architectures
Jul 15, 2026Noah MacAulayManifund$10,000OthermanifundWriting Website and research funding
Jul 15, 2026Flourishing Futures FellowshipManifund$10,000Training pipelinesmanifundFlourishing Futures Fellowship
Jul 9, 2026Suzy ShepherdManifund$10,000OthermanifundDevelopment time for next film project
Jul 7, 2026Aleksei ChebotarevManifund$10,000FoundationsmanifundTheoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTA
Jul 4, 2026Jack MaiorinoManifund$10,000ControlmanifundTesting failure modes of debate-style AI control schemes
Jul 2, 2026Aditya JoshiManifund$10,000InterpretabilitymanifundMechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviors
Jul 2, 2026Sapiens FirstManifund$10,000AI safety fieldbuildingmanifundMovement-building to make AGI go well
Jun 25, 2026Andrew KemeklisManifund$10,000OthermanifundDiscrete/Symbolic Language Modeling
Jun 25, 2026Raul Cavalcante DinardiManifund$10,000Alignment methodsmanifundDebate training on LLMs as a reward-hacking mitigation
Jun 23, 2026Nada AminManifund$10,000SecuritymanifundMaking sure that the code AI pushes to the internet is safe and bug-free
Jun 23, 2026Thomas CederborgManifund$10,000InterpretabilitymanifundAlignment Target Analysis
Jun 23, 2026AFFINEManifund$10,000EvalsmanifundAFFINE Event-Prep
Nov 4, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$100OthermanifundFinishing The SB-1047 Documentary