Hi, this Ryan Kidd answering on behalf of MATS Research!
MATS is currently fundraising for our 2026 programs and beyond. We are the largest AI safety research fellowship and talent pipeline, supporting 100 fellows twice a year. Some impact stats:
80% of our pre-2025 alumni work on AI safety and 10% founded AI safety orgs or teams (e.g., Apollo, Timaeus).
Participants in our last program rated it 9.4/10 on average.
Former team members have gone on to (re)found Constellation’s Astra Fellowship, manage Anthropic’s AI safety external partnerships, and help other AI safety orgs scale.
We are well-funded by Coefficient Giving, but have big scaling plans! We want to run an additional fellowship in Fall 2026, expand Summer and Winter 2026 programs to 120 fellows each, and launch a 1-2 year residency program for senior researchers. Each additional fellow costs $40.8k.
Some testimonials:
“Apollo almost certainly would not have happened without MATS.” Marius Hobbhahn (CEO, Apollo Research)
“It’s my number one recommendation to people considering work on Al safety.” Jesse Hoogland (Executive Director, Timaeus)
Please reply here or contact us if you have any questions!
Hi, this Ryan Kidd answering on behalf of MATS Research!
MATS is currently fundraising for our 2026 programs and beyond. We are the largest AI safety research fellowship and talent pipeline, supporting 100 fellows twice a year. Some impact stats:
446 alumni and 120+ arXiv papers (h-index 37) in 3.5 years.
80% of our pre-2025 alumni work on AI safety and 10% founded AI safety orgs or teams (e.g., Apollo, Timaeus).
Participants in our last program rated it 9.4/10 on average.
Former team members have gone on to (re)found Constellation’s Astra Fellowship, manage Anthropic’s AI safety external partnerships, and help other AI safety orgs scale.
We are well-funded by Coefficient Giving, but have big scaling plans! We want to run an additional fellowship in Fall 2026, expand Summer and Winter 2026 programs to 120 fellows each, and launch a 1-2 year residency program for senior researchers. Each additional fellow costs $40.8k.
Some testimonials:
“Apollo almost certainly would not have happened without MATS.” Marius Hobbhahn (CEO, Apollo Research)
“It’s my number one recommendation to people considering work on Al safety.” Jesse Hoogland (Executive Director, Timaeus)
Please reply here or contact us if you have any questions!
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