Information for Epoch

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Basic information

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Other names Epoch AI
Country United States
Twitter username @EpochAIResearch
Website https://epochai.org/
Team page https://epochai.org/team
Launch date 2022-06-23
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2025-02-11
Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2022 19 Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Atkinson, Jenny Xiao, Keith Wynroe, Lennart Heim, Marius Hobbhahn, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Jaime Sevilla, Maria da Lama Tamay Besiroglu Daniela Amodei Ege Erdil, Ege Erdil, Neil Thompson, Neil Thompson, Tom Davidson
2023 25 Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Atkinson, David Owen, Jenny Xiao, Keith Wynroe, Marius Hobbhahn, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Jaime Sevilla, Josh You, Lennart Heim, Maria da Lama, Maria da Lama, Robi Rahman Tamay Besiroglu Daniela Amodei Ege Erdil, Ege Erdil, Ege Erdil, Neil Thompson, Neil Thompson, Tom Davidson, Virginia Blanton
2024 26 Alexander Erben, Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Owen, Ege Erdil, Jean-Stanislas Denain, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos, Tom Adamczewski Andrew Souza, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Elliot Glazer, Jaime Sevilla, Josh You, Lennart Heim, Luke Frymire, Maria da Lama, Matej Vrzala, Robi Rahman Caroline Falkman Olsson, Simon Jarvis, Tamay Besiroglu Ege Erdil, Neil Thompson, Virginia Blanton
2025 24 Alexander Erben, Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Owen, Ege Erdil, Jean-Stanislas Denain, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos, Tom Adamczewski Andrew Souza, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Elliot Glazer, Jaime Sevilla, Josh You, Lennart Heim, Luke Frymire, Maria da Lama, Matej Vrzala, Robi Rahman Caroline Falkman Olsson, Simon Jarvis, Tamay Besiroglu Neil Thompson, Virginia Blanton

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2023-01-01 11 Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Atkinson, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Jaime Sevilla, Jenny Xiao, Keith Wynroe, Maria da Lama, Marius Hobbhahn, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos
2024-01-01 11 Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Owen, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Jaime Sevilla, Josh You, Lennart Heim, Maria da Lama, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos, Robi Rahman
2025-01-01 19 Alexander Erben, Andrew Souza, Anson Ho, Ben Cottier, David Owen, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Ege Erdil, Elliot Glazer, Jaime Sevilla, Jean-Stanislas Denain, Josh You, Lennart Heim, Luke Frymire, Maria da Lama, Matej Vrzala, Matthew Barnett, Pablo Villalobos, Robi Rahman, Tom Adamczewski

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2022-06-28 10 10 0 Anson Ho, Eduardo Infante-Roldán, Jaime Sevilla, Lennart Heim, Marius Hobbhahn, Neil Thompson, Neil Thompson, Pablo Villalobos, Tamay Besiroglu, Tom Davidson
2022-09-26 13 3 0 Ege Erdil, Ege Erdil, Matthew Barnett
2022-12-01 14 1 0 Maria da Lama
2022-12-03 18 5 -1 Ben Cottier, Daniela Amodei, David Atkinson, Jenny Xiao, Keith Wynroe Lennart Heim
2023-02-04 15 1 -4 Lennart Heim Ege Erdil, Ege Erdil, Jenny Xiao, Keith Wynroe
2023-04-01 16 1 0 David Owen
2023-05-01 17 1 0 Robi Rahman
2023-05-22 18 1 0 Ege Erdil
2023-06-26 17 0 -1 David Atkinson
2023-09-30 14 0 -3 Daniela Amodei, Neil Thompson, Tom Davidson
2023-11-01 15 2 -1 Josh You, Maria da Lama Maria da Lama
2023-11-28 16 1 0 Virginia Blanton
2023-12-11 15 0 -1 Marius Hobbhahn
2024-04-01 16 1 0 Luke Frymire
2024-04-29 15 0 -1 Ege Erdil
2024-06-01 17 2 0 Alexander Erben, Jean-Stanislas Denain
2024-07-01 17 1 -1 Tom Adamczewski Eduardo Infante-Roldán
2024-07-22 18 1 0 Ege Erdil
2024-08-19 19 1 0 Eduardo Infante-Roldán
2024-09-01 20 1 0 Elliot Glazer
2024-09-30 24 4 0 Andrew Souza, Caroline Falkman Olsson, Matej Vrzala, Simon Jarvis

List of people (37 positions)

Person Title Start date End date AI safety relation Subject Employment type Source Notes
Jaime Sevilla Director 2022-06-28 [1], [2]
Tamay Besiroglu Associate director 2022-06-28 [1], [2]
Maria da Lama Head of Operations 2023-11-01 [3], [2]
David Owen Senior Researcher 2023-04-01 full-time [4], [2]
Ege Erdil Senior Researcher 2024-07-22 [5], [2]
Pablo Villalobos Staff Researcher 2022-06-28 [1], [2]
Anson Ho Staff Researcher 2022-06-28 [1], [2]
Matthew Barnett Staff Researcher 2022-09-26 [6], [2]
Ben Cottier Staff Researcher 2022-12-03 [7], [2]
Jean-Stanislas Denain Staff Researcher 2024-06-01 [8], [2]
Alexander Erben Staff Researcher 2024-06-01 [9], [2]
Tom Adamczewski Machine Learning Research Engineer 2024-07-01 full-time [10], [2]
Elliot Glazer Lead mathematician 2024-09-01 full-time [11], [2]
Robi Rahman Data Scientist 2023-05-01 full-time [12], [2]
Josh You Data Analyst 2023-11-01 full-time [5], [13], [2]
Luke Frymire Data Analyst 2024-04-01 [14], [2]
Eduardo Infante-Roldán Software Engineer 2024-08-19 [15], [2]
Matej Vrzala Software Engineer 2024-09-30 [16], [2]
Andrew Souza Software Engineer 2024-09-30 [16], [2]
Caroline Falkman Olsson Operations Associate 2024-09-30 [16], [2]
Simon Jarvis Operations Associate 2024-09-30 [16], [2]
Lennart Heim Strategy Specialist 2023-02-04 [17], [2]
Virginia Blanton Leadership Advisor 2023-11-28 advisor [18], [2]
Tom Davidson Research Advisor 2022-06-28 2023-09-30 advisor [1], [2]
Neil Thompson Research Advisor 2022-06-28 advisor [1], [2]
Daniela Amodei Advisory board 2022-12-03 2023-09-30 advisor [7], [19]
David Atkinson Staff Researcher 2022-12-03 2023-06-26 [7], [20]
Eduardo Infante-Roldán Software Engineer 2022-06-28 2024-07-01 [1], [5]
Ege Erdil Technical Advisor 2022-09-26 2023-02-04 [6], [17]
Ege Erdil Technical Advisor 2022-09-26 2023-02-04 [6], [17]
Ege Erdil Technical Advisor 2023-05-22 2024-04-29 [21], [22]
Jenny Xiao Research Fellow 2022-12-03 2023-02-04 [7], [17]
Keith Wynroe Research manager 2022-12-03 2023-02-04 [7], [17]
Lennart Heim Research Fellow and Strategy Specialist 2022-06-28 2022-12-03 [1], [7]
Maria da Lama Operations Coordinator 2022-12-01 2023-11-01 [3]
Marius Hobbhahn Research Fellow 2022-06-28 2023-12-11 [1], [23]
Neil Thompson Research Advisor 2022-06-28 2023-09-30 advisor [1], [19]

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