Apollo 18-Month Update

Embedded Evaluators are necessary for meaningful external testing

Final-checkpoint testing could not have caught recent incidents like the Hugging Face incident, which arose much earlier in development. Meaningful external testing requires embedded evaluators with employee-equivalent access.

Apollo Update May 2026

Apollo Research now has an office in San Francisco and is hiring across many roles including Science of Scheming and Monitoring.

Apollo Research is becoming a PBC

Apollo is spinning off from our fiscal sponsor into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). We think this is the best way for us to achieve our mission of reducing extreme risks from frontier AI systems.