METR is a nonprofit organization that scientifically evaluates frontier AI systems for autonomous capabilities and catastrophic risk potential. METR's Twitter Score is 57 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #15,290 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
METR, whose full legal name is Model Evaluation and Threat Research, Inc., was founded by Beth Barnes and operates as a 501(c)(3) incorporated in Delaware. It was spun out from the Alignment Research Center as a standalone nonprofit in December 2023. Its research focuses on assessing whether frontier AI models possess capabilities that could enable autonomous research, cyberattacks, or other forms of catastrophic harm to society.
METR is a member of the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium, serves as a research partner to the AI Security Institute, and provides technical assistance to the European AI Office. The organization states it has not accepted funding from AI companies, though those companies do provide model access and compute credits. Its backers include The Audacious Project, which catalyzed approximately $38 million for a collaboration involving METR, as well as The Pew Charitable Trusts, Schmidt Sciences, the Sijbrandij Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation, the Astralis Foundation, and Expa.org.
METR has published 646 posts on the platform and has 28,411 followers as of August 2026. The account has been mentioned by 42 accounts, with 56 total mentions.
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