TLDR: what is the grant round?

grantmaking.ai is launching a 1 million dollars grant round, distributing 5 thousand dollars to 50 thousand dollars per successful application to people and projects working to reduce x-risk from AI.

Applications will be reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch. We aim to make all funding decisions by July 28th. Applications submitted by July 13th are guaranteed a priority review. You can still apply after July 13th, and we will make our best effort to review late submissions as long as funding remains.

Grant applications will be mostly public, though we allow certain sensitive details to be kept private. Even if you are not applying, we invite you to join the platform to review and comment. We have set aside 100 thousand dollars of the budget to be given to top commenters as regranting budgets, so please share your thoughts and help us pick out awesome projects!

Who are we?

grantmaking.ai was initialized by Anton Makiievskyi, who is funding this round and brought the team together, built by Matt Brooks (lead dev) and Melissa Samworth (ui/ux), and advised by Austin Chen with Manifund handling grant distribution.

Why we’re building this platform [...]

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Outline:

(00:16) TLDR: what is the grant round?

(01:16) Who are we?

(01:35) Why we're building this platform & launching a grant round

(02:53) What is grantmaking.ai, and who is it for?

(04:13) Grant round details

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First published:
June 29th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hDQZZzYkcipgaZfxy/usd1m-ai-x-risk-grant-round-is-live-on-grantmaking-ai-apply

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

″$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai - apply for funding, review applicants, or fund projects” by mbrooks, Mckiev

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″$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai - apply for funding, review applicants, or fund projects” by mbrooks, Mckiev