Lightcone Infrastructure Inc

FlexHEG Builders: During 2024 we received a grant of $54,060 to design and organize a two-day research workshop (scheduled for early 2025 at FAR Labs, Berkeley) that will convene ~30 investigators (eight funded R & D teams plus external AI-policy, chip-design, and verification specialists) to accelerate hardware-enabled governance (FlexHEG) research for safe, advanced AI. Pre-event work included setting shared IP terms, curating breakout research agendas, and coordinating preliminary design-choice studies so that, at the workshop, participants can refine experimental road-maps, prototype priorities, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Outputs will include openly licensed technical breakouts, draft design documents, and a networked research community positioned to pursue empirical validation of FlexHEG mechanisms.