ne of the hottest stories in AI right now. Kevin Bass, followed by Elon and some of the smartest people in AI, has been investigating METR, one of the major third-party groups evaluating frontier AI models. He says that out of roughly $71M in recent commitments, only $350K is publicly identifiable. That leaves a huge question around who is funding third-party AI evaluators. Kevin just said he’s running out of AI tokens and posted his X Money to help fund the research. We’re supporting him directly through @UsePaid . There’s now a lot of speculation online that major AI labs could be behind some of this funding to influence how third-party audits are handled.