Index
Funding Round: Elon Musk Grant (Future of Life Institute (FLI))
Verdictconfirmed99%
1 check · 7/20/20261 → confirmed
Our claim
entire record- Name
- Elon Musk Grant
- Date
- January 2015
- Raised
- 10000000
- Raised Low
- 10000000
- Raised High
- 10000000
- Instrument
- donation
- Lead Investor
- Elon Musk
- Lead Investor
- Elon Musk
- Notes
- Elon Musk donated $10M to FLI in January 2015 for AI safety research. The funds were used to run the 2015 AI Safety Grant Program, which funded 37 projects totaling $7M+ to researchers at Oxford, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, MIRI, and other institutions.
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkwww.lesswrong.com/posts/FuCZdbQ3h6782bnY6/elon-musk-donates-usd10m-to-the-future-of-life-institute-toresource
confirmed99%Haiku 4.5 · 7/20/2026
NoteAll three key fields are confirmed by the source: (1) name 'Elon Musk Grant' is accurately descriptive of the donation program described; (2) raised amount of $10,000,000 is explicitly stated multiple times in the source ('donate $10M', 'committing $10M', 'The $10M program'); (3) date of 2015-01 is confirmed by the publication date of 2015-01-15, which falls within January 2015. The source directly addresses all claimed fields with no contradictions.
Case № 9jPiukVli9Filed 7/20/2026Confidence 99%