Interpretability Challenge

Interpretability Challenge

Opportunity type
Funding
Contest
Cause areas
AI safety & policy
Routes to impact
Skill-building & building career capital
Learning about important cause areas
Direct high impact on an important cause
Skill set
Conceptual & empirical research
Academia
Software engineering
Entrepreneur
Deadline
2026-02-01
Description
Martian is offering a $1M prize to advance research in AI interpretability, with a focus on understanding and improving how large language models (LLMs) generate code.
  • Open to researchers making fundamental progress in interpretability, especially as it applies to code generation
  • Funding available both as grants for promising research directions and awards for completed impactful work
  • Emphasis on solving core problems like reliability, safety, efficiency, and transparency in AI models
  • Applications from all backgrounds are welcome; strong foundational work in interpretability is encouraged
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