The 2025 philanthropic tranche was structured as a four-foundation pooled fund, distributed via a fiscal sponsor under the same terms as previous tranches: no scope-of-research conditions, full publication independence, audit rights for the funders limited to compute usage and capability-evaluation summaries.
Three additional foundations joined the pool at lower commitment levels, in part contingent on alphabell's continued participation in the External Evaluation Cooperative, of which alphabell is a member in good standing.
Audit rights for the funders limited to compute usage and capability-evaluation summaries.
Combined with the second tranche of the multi-year sovereign-research partnership and modest licensing revenue, full-year compute is now funded through 2026-Q3. The 2027 fundraising cycle is expected to open in 2026-Q2.
For the protocol details behind anything mentioned above, see /governance and /charter. For the structural commitments, /about.