Google DeepMind and Partners Launch $10M Multi-Agent AI Safety Research Fund
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, the Cooperative AI Foundation, ARIA, and Google.org announced a global research funding call of up to $10 million focused on safety in environments where millions of AI agents from different organizations interact. The four research priorities are: sandboxes and testbeds, agent network science, agent infrastructure protocols, and oversight and control. Applications are open through August 8, 2026.
Why it matters
As agentic AI systems proliferate rapidly, safety research on cross-organizational agent interactions has lagged deployment. This is one of the first major coordinated multi-funder efforts targeting emergent risks from agent networks at scale.
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First cross-org multi-agent safety research fund, $10M, Google DeepMind frontier lab