Funding ask
Budget Allocation Breakdown ($200,000 USD Target):
- High-Performance Cloud Compute Infrastructure (50% - $100,000):
- Provisioning enterprise-grade GPU clusters (Nvidia H100 / A100 instances) for dynamic topological stress-testing and runtime governance matrix (A1M/GRACE) evaluation across frontier open-weight models.
- Principal Investigator Stipend & Dedicated Time (30% - $60,000):
- Sustaining 100% full-time dedicated research, mathematical proof expansion, code maintenance, and framework optimization for 12 months.
- Specialized Technical Services & Contractors (12% - $24,000):
- Targeted engagement of CUDA optimization engineers and formal verification specialists to minimize execution latency in runtime control loops.
- Open-Access Deployment, Benchmarking & Dissemination (8% - $16,000):
- Hosting interactive Hugging Face Spaces, dataset infrastructure, open-access repository maintenance, and presentation at international AI safety symposiums.