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Plain-English guides to each kind of AI opportunity we track: what it is, who can apply, what it pays and how to apply, with examples from live, verified listings.
🎓 How AI fellowships and residencies workFellowships & residencies · 29 open now💷 How AI research and startup grants workGrants · 16 open now⚡ How free GPU and cloud credits for AI workCompute & cloud credits · 20 open now🚀 How AI startup accelerators workAccelerators · 10 open now🏆 How AI competitions, prizes and hackathons workCompetitions & prizes · 30 open now
Which kind of opportunity fits you?
- Want paid time to research, write or train? Start with fellowships and residencies, including funded PhDs.
- Have a project that needs money but not investors? See grants.
- Need GPUs, cloud or model access? See compute and cloud credits.
- Starting a company? See accelerators.
- Want to test your skills against a problem? See competitions and prizes, including hackathons.
Written by Sam at advance.to. Sam is an editor at advance.to who tracks and verifies AI funding opportunities: fellowships, grants, compute credits, accelerators and competitions.
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