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FAR AI

Non-profit AI safety research institute

Overview

FAR AI is a non-profit research institute focused on making advanced AI safe and beneficial for society. It conducts in-house work on model evaluation, interpretability, and robustness, and it funds collaborations to pursue safety research ideas. A core activity is red-teaming frontier AI systems to uncover vulnerabilities and inform safety standards for developers and governments. The organization runs FAR.Labs in Berkeley and hosts global dialogues to foster collaboration, supported by philanthropic funding with for-profit revenue kept to 10% to preserve independence.

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About FAR AI

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Why FAR AI is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Government & Public SectorSocial ImpactAI & Machine Learning

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Berkeley, CA

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • FAR.AI secured over $30 million in 2025 commitments, funding rapid team growth.
  • Its Singapore office deepens IMDA, CSA, and NUS partnerships across Asia-Pacific.
  • The EU AI Office mandate positions FAR.AI as a default safety vendor for regulators.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI can internalize its findings and sideline FAR.AI.
  • A single major safety failure in a partner model would damage FAR.AI's credibility quickly.
  • If philanthropic grants shrink after 2027, FAR.AI's 30-plus researcher expansion becomes unsustainable.

What makes FAR AI unique

  • FAR.AI combines frontier model red-teaming, policy work, and convening across three continents.
  • Its September 2026 AI Security Leaderboard benchmarks real jailbreak costs across six harm domains.
  • The European Commission AI Office chose FAR.AI to lead EU AI Act CBRN research.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Remote Work Options
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Sabbatical Leave
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Wellness Program
  • Mental Health Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
PR Newswire
Jul 30th, 2026
FAR.AI opens first international office in Singapore to advance AI safety research

FAR.AI, a nonprofit AI safety research organisation, has opened its first international office in Singapore. The Singapore office will serve as FAR.AI's Asia Centre of Excellence, deepening collaboration on AI safety research across the Asia-Pacific region. FAR.AI has existing partnerships in Singapore with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), and NUS. The organisation is currently working with IMDA to examine risks posed by advanced AI systems, including technical assessments of chatbot persuasive behaviour. Previously, FAR.AI collaborated with CSA on agentic AI security research, presenting the discussion paper "Securing Agentic AI" at Singapore International Cyber Week last year. The organisation has also built research ties with the NUS AI Institute. FAR.AI was founded in 2022 and has been selected by the European Commission's AI Office to lead technical safety research.

PR Newswire
Jul 29th, 2026
FAR.AI leaderboard reveals hundredfold gap in AI security: Grok, Gemini broken for under $300

AI security nonprofit FAR.AI has launched a leaderboard revealing a hundredfold gap in safeguards across frontier AI models. Testing found hundreds of "universal jailbreaks" in Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro, costing roughly $58 and $278 respectively to exploit. Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol showed no such vulnerabilities under identical testing, with exploitation costs exceeding $14,200. FAR.AI tested over 60 publicly documented jailbreak techniques across chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive, and cybersecurity threats. Grok 4.5 yielded 448 distinct universal jailbreaks whilst Gemini 3.1 Pro produced 249. The stronger models employed multiple independent protection layers. The organisation published a Minimal Standard for Safeguards alongside the leaderboard at leaderboard.far.ai, defining baseline attacks frontier models should withstand. FAR.AI shared findings confidentially with evaluated companies before publication.

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