Safety & interpretability · Tel Aviv, IL · founded 2023
Irregular: who founded it, who funds it
Irregular is a Tel Aviv AI safety lab founded in 2023 by Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo, who came from IBM and DeepMind. What it is building: a frontier AI security lab; its evaluations appear in OpenAI and Anthropic system cards. No funding round has been disclosed. Its work reaches customers through partnerships rather than a public product.
- Founders
- Dan Lahav (ex-IBM), Omer Nevo (ex-Google DeepMind)
- Founders from
- ex-IBM, ex-Google DeepMind
- Location
- Tel Aviv, IL (Middle East)
- Valuation
- $450M estimate, per source
- Raised
- · disclosed
- Investors
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- What ships
- Partnerships
Sources
- neolabs.fyi neolabs.fyi
News
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Sep 18, 2026
+2 more coverage
- TechRadar Irregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic sel…
- tech-insider.org Irregular: Israeli AI Firm Tied to OpenAI, Meta Hacks
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Aug 6, 2026