Sequoia Capital → Venture backing → Irregular / Pattern Labs
2026-09-19
Sequoia confirms its investment partnership.
AI & money
Irregular: the labs, the incidents and the response
See the shared supplier, its lab relationships and the proposed response to testing failures.
Solid lines: documented in a cited record. Dashed: reported or inferred. Hollow arrows: proposed powers. Choose a connection for its evidence.
This maps institutional relationships, not a single coordinated attack. The Hugging Face escape is a separate incident.
What the connections say
9 relationshipsGood Ventures → $6.8m grant entry / two years → Irregular / Pattern Labs
2026-09-19
Good Ventures lists a February 2024 Pattern Labs award. Same grant as the Open Philanthropy recommendation; not an equity investment or payment ledger.
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Irregular / Pattern Labs → Cyber-evaluation supplier → OpenAI
2026-09-19
OpenAI identifies its testing relationship with Irregular.
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Irregular / Pattern Labs → Cyber-evaluation supplier → Anthropic
2026-09-19
Anthropic identifies Irregular as the evaluation partner involved in the July disclosure.
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Irregular / Pattern Labs → Lab security collaboration → DeepMind
2026-09-19
Investor and founder announcements name Google DeepMind as a partner.
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Irregular / Pattern Labs → Testing supplier, reported → Meta
2026-09-19
Reported by the cited source
AP reports Meta hired Irregular and quotes both organizations on a testing incident. Reported company statements; standalone Meta postmortem not acquired.
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Irregular / Pattern Labs → Announces best-practice work → Irregular cyber-evaluation guidance initiative
2026-09-19
Supplier proposes shared cyber-evaluation guidance after containment failures.
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OpenAI → Will participate → Irregular cyber-evaluation guidance initiative
2026-09-19
OpenAI says it will contribute to the white paper and continue the partnership.
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Anthropic → Signs independent-review agreement → METR
2026-09-19
Anthropic announces METR investigation of four incidents, with access beyond incident windows and to employees. Initial agreement is eight weeks with mutually agreed extension; not a completed independent verdict.