Organization
METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research)
Research lab · Nonprofit research · Berkeley, California
METR is a research nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models, measuring their autonomous capabilities and assessing whether and when AI systems could pose catastrophic risks. It publishes research, evaluation reports on specific models, and open-source tooling for running evaluations.126
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Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Nonprofit
METR describes itself as a research nonprofit. The IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists Model Evaluation and Threat Research as a Section 501(c)(3) organization.15
- Legal form
- Corporation recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3), per the IRS exempt-organization extract for California (EIN 99-1219864, the EIN METR gives on its donation page).53
- Headquarters
- Berkeley, California4
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Research
What is and isn’t public
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspect-Hawk (external site: github.com) | Developer tool | Open-source platform (MIT License) for running Inspect AI evaluations on AWS infrastructure that the user deploys; the hawk command-line tool is installed from PyPI. See the Hawk catalog record.78 | Oct 2, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Frameworks
- Inspect-Hawk (Hawk)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- METR publishes summaries of evaluations it ran on frontier models before their release, such as its September 2026 summary of the predeployment evaluation of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5.2
- METR's GitHub organization marks its earlier evaluation platform, Vivaria, as deprecated; its current public tooling is built around the Inspect AI framework.6
Open positions
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What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab
METR's donation page gives its legal name as Model Evaluation and Threat Research, Inc., with EIN 99-1219864 and a mailing address in Covina, California. The IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists that EIN and name at the same address as a Section 501(c)(3) organization. METR's careers page lists its open positions as on-site in Berkeley, California. The Covina address appears to be a mailing address; this record uses Berkeley, where staff work, as the headquarters label.3541
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