Epoch AI is a nonprofit research institute that studies AI progress, capabilities, scaling, and societal and economic impact, co-founded by Jaime Sevilla, Marius Hobbhahn, and Tamay Besiroglu. Epoch AI's Twitter Score is 77 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranked #10,320 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Epoch AI operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and has received substantial grant funding, including support from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), which disclosed a grant of $8,500,000 in April 2025, as well as backing from Schmidt Sciences, Jaan Tallinn, Carl Shulman, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Likith Govindaiah, Girish Sastry, and Sentinel Bio. The organization states it does not lobby, advocate for any particular AI policy position, or issue policy recommendations.
Epoch AI has developed research collaborations and consultations with a wide range of organizations. It has produced joint reports and model evaluations with Google DeepMind and contributed to FrontierMath benchmark development, verification, and data auditing with OpenAI. It is building a software engineering benchmark alongside METR, and has conducted model evaluations with xAI and SWE evaluations with Blitzy Inc. Epoch AI has also provided consultations to the EU AI Office, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Bridgewater Associates AIA Labs, and produced a joint report on AI training energy demand trends with the Electric Power Research Institute. It has contributed data insights on GPU generations with Advanced Research + Invention Agency, collaborated on joint reports with the Stanford AI Index, and supported research on reinforcement learning scaling trends with Sequoia Capital Global Equities. Epoch AI previously ran a small pilot for a new benchmark with Anthropic.
Epoch AI has published 2,595 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 51 accounts, with 71 total mentions, reflecting broad engagement across the AI research and policy community. It counts 50,228 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Epoch AI include 316 founders, 92 angel investors, 99 influencers and 3 VCs. Among its notable followers are Marc Andreessen, Nic Carter, Andrej Karpathy, Murad, Larry Cermak and Vance Spencer.