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$10 million fund announced for research on multi-agent, multi-principal AGI…

2026-06-11 · 11:18 UTC ·@sebkrier ·0 min read

Brief

Seb Krier announced a new $10M fund (launched June 2026) to support research on multi-agent, multi-principal AGI safety, prioritizing mechanism design, cooperative AI, and coordination challenges rather than single-agent alignment. The initiative is jointly run by Google DeepMind, Google.org, Schmidt Sciences, Coop AI, and ARIA Research; application details are on schmidtsciences.smapply.io and a DeepMind blog links to the initiative.

Why it matters

$10 million fund announced for research on multi-agent, multi-principal AGI safety (focus: multi-agent settings, mechanism design, cooperative AI, coordination problems).

Key details

  • Joint initiative between Google DeepMind, Google.org, Schmidt Sciences, Coop AI, and ARIA Research; blog post at deepmind.google and applications via schmidtsciences.smapply.io.
  • Named contributors credited: James D. Fox, Web Allergy (weballergy), Franklin Matija, L. R. Hammond (lrhammond), and Alex Obadia (ObadiaAlex).
Source evidence

Over the past few months I've been working on a very exciting project: a new $10m fund for research on multi-agent multi-principal AGI safety! Instead of focusing on single agent alignment and centralized control, we're looking to support research focusing on multi-agent settings, mechanism design, cooperative AI, and coordination problems.

This is a joint initiative between @GoogleDeepMind, @Googleorg, @schmidtsciences, @coopai, and @ARIAresearch. Huge thanks to @JamesDFox, @weballergy, @FranklinMatija, @lrhammond, and @ObadiaAlex for their invaluable work!

See: deepmind.google/blog/investi…

Apply: schmidtsciences.smapply.io/p…