“Announcing our $160M grant from Coefficient Giving” by Geoffrey Irving, Jesse Hoogland, Alex HT, Jacob Pfau, Daniel Murfet, Marco Cozzi, Stan van Wingerden

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We are excited to announce that Resolution (fka Sequent) has a 160 million dollars grant from Coefficient Giving (cG) to put rigorous alignment research on a (closer to) even footing with the frontier labs. We will use it to accelerate progress towards higher-confidence alignment, or to find evidence and obstacles showing why alignment is hard. The grant is structured as a 108 million dollars base plus 52 million dollars conditional on a combination of hiring success and compute needs. The base includes a small regranting budget, which we plan to use both for high-quality non-Resolution alignment research and to give back to shared community infrastructure that we depend on. Coefficient Giving will be our sole funder to start (thank you!); our goal is to raise larger-scale funds from a mixture of sources once we demonstrate success with semiautomated alignment theory and empirics. The time for ambitious alignment funding is now In our launch announcement, we argued that the time to automate alignment is now: frontier systems have finally reached the threshold where they can make nontrivial theoretical progress, and theoretical research has access to more sources of ground truth than empirical metric climbing. There is a second, structural [...] ---Outline:(01:09) The time for ambitious alignment funding is now(02:20) Please join us in speeding up higher-confidence alignment!(03:38) Join us in closing the gap --- First published: July 9th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HDKQNqiR2gtfMiWsn/announcing-our-usd160m-grant-from-coefficient-giving --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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