2 NovCloses today
ARC Prize 2026: ARC-AGI-2
ARC Prize Foundation (on Kaggle) · Online
$700K total$275K progress prizes, $275K Grand Prize, $150K bonus prize
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80 open · 19 fellowships & residencies · 37 grants · 12 compute & cloud credits · 12 competitions & prizesAI funding for researchers
Grants, fellowships, free compute and prizes for academics, postdocs and independent researchers in AI. Big public calls sit alongside small, fast ones, so it pays to look past the obvious funders.
Times and time zones vary by organiser, so check the page.
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2 NovCloses today
ARC Prize 2026: ARC-AGI-3
ARC Prize Foundation (on Kaggle) · Online
$850K total$700K Grand Prize for 100%, $75K guaranteed top-score awards, $75K milestone prizes
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4 Nov2 days left
NSF AI Datasets: Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific DiscoveryNEW
U.S. National Science Foundation · US
Impact awards up to $2,000,000Flagship awards up to $5M
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4 Nov2 days left
NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure HubsNEW
U.S. National Science Foundation · US
$4,000,000 – $12,000,000over 5 years (one award per state or region)
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6 Nov4 days left
iX Challenge: Edge AI with Low Size, Weight, Power and CostNEW
Innovate UK Business Connect (Innovation Exchange) · UK
Grant funding request up to £60,000
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6 Nov4 days left
UKOMAIN Open Multimodal AI Benchmarks (OMAIB) Round 3NEW
UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN) · UK
Up to four benchmark-development projects funded
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8 Nov6 days left
AI Safety Essentials Fellowship (GAIN SSA)NEW
Global AI Youth Network SSA (GAIN SSA) · Online (Africa)
Not stated (support for compute, subscriptions or conference travel mentioned)
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8 Nov6 days left
Apart Research: Swarm Alignment HackathonNEW
Apart Research · Online + Los Angeles hub
$4,000 in cash prizes across all tracks + $1,000 in Adaption credits for all members of winning teams
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8 Nov6 days left
ARC Prize 2026: Paper Prize
ARC Prize Foundation · Online
$450K total$75K guaranteed top-paper prizes ($50K/$20K/$5K) + $375K outstanding papers pool
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9 Nov7 days left
EPFL AI Center & Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships
EPFL AI Center · Lausanne, Switzerland
Approx. 50% of postdoc salary per yearrest covered by host labs
Verified 31 Oct+ Add to calendar
Upcoming deadlines
10 Nov8 days left
UKRI: Transformative sustainable AI technologies
UK Research and Innovation · UK
Up to £602,500 FEC per project(UKRI funds 80%); £12.05M total
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: AI for Information Security call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on averageplus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: Amazon Security call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on averageplus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: Automated Reasoning call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to $80,000plus up to $40,000 AWS Promotional Credits
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: AWS Agentic AI call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to ~$70,000 on averageplus up to ~$50,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: Build on Trainium call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
AWS Promotional Credits up to $50,000, or up to $250,000 and beyond
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to ~$50,000 on averageplus up to ~$50,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: On-Device Multimodal Perception call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on averageplus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
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11 Nov9 days left
Amazon Research Awards: Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception call for proposals (Fall 2026)NEW
Amazon Research Awards · Global
Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on averageplus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
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12 Nov10 days left
Helmholtz AI Projects Call 2026NEW
Helmholtz AI (Helmholtz Association) · Germany
€500k+ per project(max €250k from the INF plus matching funding from the centres); up to 3 years
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15 Nov13 days left
Apart Research: AI x Epistemics Research SprintNEW
Apart Research · Online
Cash prizes for top teams (see the sprint page); top teams invited to apply to the Apart Fellowship
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16 Nov14 days left
IAPP Westin Fellowship 2027–28
IAPP · Portsmouth, NH, USA
Not stated by the organiser (one-year research fellowship)
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16 Nov14 days left
Iliad Intensive, January 2027NEW
Iliad · See organiser page
Not stated by the organiser
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16 Nov14 days left
WASP-HS Postdoctoral Scholarship on Autonomous Systems and Robotics in SocietyNEW
WASP-HS (with MIT) · Cambridge, MA, US
Stipend approx. USD 73,308 a year for one to two years
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22 Nov20 days left
GovAI DC Summer Fellowship 2027NEW
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) · Washington DC, USA
$24,500 stipend
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22 Nov20 days left
GovAI UK Summer Fellowship 2027 (Research and Applied tracks)NEW
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) · London, UK
Stipend not captured from the page (check organiser page)
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23 Nov21 days left
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Michigan, 2027 cohort)NEW
Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) · Ann Arbor, US
Funded postdoctoral fellowship (see MIDAS for salary)
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27 Nov25 days left
RobotX Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027NEW
RobotX, Center for Robotics, ETH Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland
Postdoc position at ETH Zurich (salary scale not stated on the posting)
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29 Nov27 days left
Apart Research: Agent Attribution HackathonNEW
Apart Research · Online
$2,000 in cash prizes across all tracks
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30 Nov28 days left
Microsoft AI Economy Institute Open Call 4: AI and JobsNEW
Microsoft Research (AI Economy Institute) · Global
Research grant per selected proposal (amount on the call page)
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30 Nov28 days left
RoboWorld 2026, Track 1: WorldNav
RoboPAD Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 (Codabench) · Online
Certificates for top 5 teamsselected teams invited to present at the RoboPAD Workshop at NeurIPS 2026 (no cash prize stated)
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1 Dec29 days left
ARIA Robot Dexterity: Benchmarks, Standards and Interoperability callNEW
ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency) · UK
Programme backed by £88.5msee the RFP for per-project funding
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1 Dec29 days left
Simons Foundation: Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI (2027)
Simons Foundation · New York State, USA
$6M programmeover two years; 6–12 awards, no per-award maximum
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1 Dec29 days left
Simons Institute Research Fellowships 2027–28 (incl. Diffusion Generative Modeling)NEW
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley · Berkeley, US
Research fellowship (amount not stated on the call)
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1 Dec29 days left
UKRI: Enabling AI adoption across science and engineeringNEW
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) · UK
Total fund £5,000,000maximum award £250,000 (UKRI funds 80% of FEC); projects up to 1 year from 26 Apr 2027
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2 Dec30 days left
Oxford AIGI DPhil Studentships in AI Governance (Track I)NEW
Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford · Oxford, UK
Funded DPhil studentships (value not captured)
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3 Dec31 days left
DOE GEMS Prize Challenge (geothermal fault mapping)NEW
US Department of Energy (DrivenData) · Online
Total prize pool $300,000
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4 Dec32 days left
ARIA Robot Locomotion programme call (concept papers)NEW
ARIA (Advanced Research + Invention Agency) · UK / any location
Not stated per award (£60m programme)
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6 Dec34 days left
Apart Research: Threat Intelligence & Threat Modelling HackathonNEW
Apart Research (with Security Level 5) · Online
$5,000 in cash prizes across all tracks
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6 Dec34 days left
Conception X Venture Scientist 100 (Spring 2027)NEW
Conception X · UK / Europe (hybrid)
Free programme, no fees and no equity taken; top performers can pitch partner investors for up to £300k (XTX Ventures + CX angel syndicate)
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8 Dec36 days left
UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum computingNEW
EPSRC and STFC (UKRI) · UK
Total fund £17,000,000maximum award £3,750,000
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11 Dec39 days left
DIM AI4IDF: AI Computing Infrastructure Call 2026–2027
DIM AI4IDF / DATAIA · Île-de-France, France
Co-funding for shared AI compute infrastructure (amount not stated)
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15 Dec43 days left
IHS AI and the Workforce research grantsNEW
Institute for Humane Studies · Global
Up to $20,000larger awards possible for exceptional projects
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17 Dec45 days left
Mozilla Foundation Fellowships 2027–2028NEW
Mozilla Foundation · Global
Up to $125,000over 12 months
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31 Dec59 days left
Research Software Catalyst Fund: Exploratory GrantsNEW
Research Software Catalyst Fund · Global
Up to $50,000 per exploratory grant
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15 Jan 202774 days left
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab call for proposals (2027 projects)NEW
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab · Cambridge, MA, US
Projects expected in the range 100,000 – 300,000 total cost per year; 1 year
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15 Jan 202774 days left
NIH Temporal Reasoning in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs ChallengeNEW
NIH (via CrowdPlat) · Online
$1,000,000
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18 Jan 202777 days left
EPSRC AI ICURe Discover Sprint (February 2027)NEW
Innovate UK Business Connect / EPSRC · UK
Up to £2,500
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27 Jan 202786 days left
Oxford AIGI DPhil Studentships (Track II, AIMS-integrated)NEW
Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford · Oxford, UK
Funded DPhil studentships (value not captured)
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28 Jan 202787 days left
AI Research Groups Lower SaxonyNEW
zukunft.niedersachsen (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture & Volkswagen Foundation) · Lower Saxony, Germany
Up to EUR 2 million per research group
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28 Jan 202787 days left
EuroHPC: Quantum Machine Learning call
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking · EU
Not stated in the call summary (Horizon Europe call)
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29 Jan 202788 days left
LawAI Summer Research Fellowship (Legal Frontiers)NEW
Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) · Cambridge, UK / Washington DC
Not captured (check organiser page)
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18 Mar 2027136 days left
Horizon Europe: EU Frontier AI Initiative (HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-11)NEW
European Commission (Horizon Europe) · EU / associated countries
Not stated in the call summary (see the Funding & Tenders portal)
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25 Jun 2027235 days left
Vesuvius Challenge: 2027 Grand PrizeNEW
Scroll Prize, Inc. (Vesuvius Challenge) · Online
$800,000 to the first team or individual to fully unroll and make readable a scroll; $2,140,000 open prize pool incl. monthly progress prizes
Verified 2 Nov+ Add to calendar
Rolling, or date not yet published
Date TBCSee listing
Coefficient Giving: funding for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AINEW
Coefficient Giving · Global
Grants for full- and part-time projects (amount set per application)
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
Cohere Labs Catalyst Grants (API credits)NEW
Cohere Labs · Global
Cohere API credits (amount set per project)
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
Exponential Science call for project proposalsNEW
Exponential Science · Global
Up to 15,000 USD per project6–12 months
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
Forethought Founders FellowshipNEW
Forethought · Oxford, UK or Berkeley, US
Salary roughly $170,000–$210,000(US) or £100,000–£150,000 (UK) a year, pro-rated; 2-month exit grant; considered for a seed grant of up to $2m
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
FrontierOR ChallengeNEW
FrontierOR · Online
Prize pool $21,000
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
GTR AI Safety FundNEW
Global Technology Risk (GTR) Foundation · Global
Funding for people and early-stage organisations in AI safety (amount set per case)
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
Nebius Research GrantsNEW
Nebius · Global
GPU cloud credits, Token Factory tokens and Tavily credits (amount set per proposal)
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
Perplexity Research FellowshipNEW
Perplexity · San Francisco, New York City or Palo Alto, US
$180K – $220K(annualised compensation), full time
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
RICH Hub Climate AI Innovation: support and scaling grantsNEW
Research & Innovation for Climate (RICH) Hub, Local Development Research Institute · Africa
Potential scaling grants of up to USD 200,000
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing
Snorkel AI Open Benchmarks GrantsNEW
Snorkel AI · Global
$30M programme for open benchmarksin-kind support
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
Anthropic AI for Science programNEW
Anthropic · Global
Up to $20,000 in API creditsover 6 months
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
Anthropic Fellows Program
Anthropic · UK / USA / Canada
Stipend (see listing) plus ~$15K/month compute and mentorship
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time
ARIA Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity (Track 1) rolling fundingNEW
ARIA (Advanced Research + Invention Agency) · UK (international applicants per ARIA rules)
Not stated per award (£59m programme)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
AWS Cloud Credit for ResearchNEW
Amazon Web Services · Global
Students up to $5,000faculty/staff awards not capped
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
EuroHPC AI Factories Playground AccessNEW
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking · EU
Free access for eligible users (hours not stated)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
EuroHPC Large Scale Access to AI FactoriesNEW
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking · EU
Large GPU allocations (size per call documents)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
Google Cloud research creditsNEW
Google Cloud for Education · Approved countries
Amount not captured from the page (third-party reports cite up to $5,000; unverified)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
Google TPU Research Cloud (TRC)NEW
Google Research · Global
Cloud TPUs at no charge (quota per acceptance)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
Iliad Fellowship
Iliad · London / SF Bay Area
Fully funded; $6,000/month travel-and-housing allowance
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time
Isambard-AI and Zenith (AIRR) Gateway routeNEWUPDATED
UK Research and Innovation · UK
Up to 10,000 GPU hours on the Isambard-AI and Zenith supercomputers, used within three months; no funding
Verified 2 Nov
RollingApply any time
Lambda Research Grant
Lambda · Global
Up to $5,000 in Lambda cloud credits
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time
NAIRR Pilot: Advancing AI Research Resources
US National Science Foundation (NAIRR Pilot) · United States
12-month allocations of computing, model, platform and educational resources
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time
OpenAI Researcher Access ProgramNEW
OpenAI · Global
Up to $1,000 in API credits, valid 12 months
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time
Project Tailwind: funding to start new AI safety organisationsNEW
Coefficient Giving · Global
Pre-seed $200k – $2m(research or planning grants over 9-18 months); seed $2m – $20m; scale $20m – $200m+
Verified 2 Nov
RollingApply any time
Survival and Flourishing Fund: Speculation Grants (rolling)NEW
Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) · Global
Expedited grants approved by ~40 Speculators(budgets typically around $400k each); not stated per grant
Verified 2 Nov
RollingApply any time
Transformative AI Fund
EA Funds · Global
Typically $10K–$150K, rarely above $300K
Verified 31 Oct
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