Starting new technical AI safety orgs/projects seems quite difficult in the current funding ecosystem. I know of many alumni who have founded or are trying to found projects who express substantial difficulties with securing sufficient funding.
Interesting—what’s like the minimum funding ask to get a new org off the ground? I think something like $300k would be enough to cover ~9 mo of salary and compute for a team of ~3, and that seems quite reasonable to raise in this current ecosystem for pre-seeding a org.
Yeah, that amount seems reasonable, if on the low side, for founding a small org. What makes you think $300k is reasonably easy to raise in this current ecosystem? Also, I’ll note that larger orgs need significantly more.
Interesting—what’s like the minimum funding ask to get a new org off the ground? I think something like $300k would be enough to cover ~9 mo of salary and compute for a team of ~3, and that seems quite reasonable to raise in this current ecosystem for pre-seeding a org.
Yeah, that amount seems reasonable, if on the low side, for founding a small org. What makes you think $300k is reasonably easy to raise in this current ecosystem? Also, I’ll note that larger orgs need significantly more.