This is the issue as we sent it on Monday 2 November 2026. Counts were correct on the day and some deadlines may have passed since: each link shows the listing's current status. For everything open now, see all open opportunities.
By advance.to · Issue #1 · Monday 2 November 2026
171 AI opportunities are open right now. 10 close this week, 25 more close next week, and 12 landed on advance.to in this week's update. Fellowships, grants, compute credits, accelerators and prizes, sorted by deadline, with every date checked on the organiser's own page. Pick one, block out an evening, and get it in.
🔥 Closing this week (Tue 3 Nov – Sun 8 Nov)
NSF AI Datasets: Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery
Closes Wed 4 Nov · Impact awards up to $2,000,000
U.S. National Science Foundation · US researchers making scientific data AI-ready.NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs
Closes Wed 4 Nov · $4,000,000 – $12,000,000 over 5 years (one award per state or region)
U.S. National Science Foundation · US organisations proposing a state or regional AI infrastructure hub.Since AI Hackathon 2026
Closes Fri 6 Nov · €50,000+ in cash prizes
Since AI · Builders worldwide; 48 hours, 15 company challenges.UKOMAIN Open Multimodal AI Benchmarks (OMAIB) Round 3
Closes Fri 6 Nov · Up to four benchmark-development projects funded
UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN) · UK researchers and partners proposing multimodal AI benchmark challenges; sandpit in Sheffield 21–22 Jan 2027.iX Challenge: Edge AI with Low Size, Weight, Power and Cost
Closes Fri 6 Nov · Grant funding request up to £60,000
Innovate UK Business Connect (Innovation Exchange) · Businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs or individual entrepreneurs based in the UK (or planning a UK base). Projects run 1 Mar – 31 May 2027.AI Security Bootcamp (AISB) San Francisco 2027
Closes Sat 7 Nov · Fully funded
AI Security Bootcamp · Security professionals with 5+ years of hands-on experience; no ML background needed. 17–23 Jan 2027.AI Safety Essentials Fellowship (GAIN SSA)
Closes Sun 8 Nov · Not stated (support for compute, subscriptions or conference travel mentioned)
Global AI Youth Network SSA (GAIN SSA) · African researchers, engineers and students; ~5 hrs/week, online.ARC Prize 2026: Paper Prize
Closes Sun 8 Nov · $450K total: $75K guaranteed top-paper prizes ($50K/$20K/$5K) + $375K outstanding papers pool
ARC Prize Foundation · Papers advancing understanding of strong ARC-AGI performance; open-source requirement applies.Apart Research: Swarm Alignment Hackathon
Closes Sun 8 Nov · $4,000 in cash prizes across all tracks + $1,000 in Adaption credits for all members of winning teams
Apart Research · Open to anyone; work solo or in a team; online with an in-person hub in Los Angeles.Vultr: Agent Rush Hackathon
Closes Sun 8 Nov · Up to $15,000 ($14,000 in competition prizes + onsite raffle)
lablab.ai × Vultr · Open hybrid hackathon: build sandboxed AI agents on Vultr. Travel and accommodation not covered.
⏳ Closing next week (Mon 9 Nov – Sun 15 Nov)
Mon 9 Nov · BSC AI Factory Accelerator Programme, Call 1 · 14-week equity-free programme with supercomputing access (cash amount not stated)
Mon 9 Nov · EPFL AI Center & Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships · Approx. 50% of postdoc salary per year (rest covered by host labs)
Tue 10 Nov · Google Mumbai Data Challenge: Air Quality Mapping & Forecasting · $6 000 USD
Tue 10 Nov · UKRI: Transformative sustainable AI technologies · Up to £602,500 FEC per project (UKRI funds 80%)
Wed 11 Nov · 0G Apollo AI Accelerator, Cohort 2 · Up to $2M investment per project (subject to diligence) plus perks
Wed 11 Nov · Amazon Research Awards: 8 calls, Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on average plus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average: AI for Information Security, AWS Agentic AI, Amazon Security, Automated Reasoning, Build on Trainium, Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation, On-Device Multimodal Perception, Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception
Wed 11 Nov · Frontier AI: SME Champions, Phase 1 · Share of up to £3.1 million
Wed 11 Nov · Gates Foundation AI Fellows Program: Africa cohort · Paid 12-month limited-term employment (salary not stated on the posting)
Thu 12 Nov · Helmholtz AI Projects Call 2026 · €500k+ per project (max €250k from the INF plus matching funding from the centres)
Thu 12 Nov · PayPal AI Hackathon · $67,500 in cash
Fri 13 Nov · Physical AI Growth Lab · Free, equity-free
Sat 14 Nov · DSH Hacks V2 (AI and healthcare) · $100k+ in prizes
Sun 15 Nov · Apart Research: AI x Epistemics Research Sprint · Cash prizes for top teams (see the sprint page)
Sun 15 Nov · Code for a Billion: Bharat Agentic AI Hackathon 2026 · ₹18 lakh in cash prizes
Sun 15 Nov · Constellation Founders Residency · No cost, no equity (stipend not stated)
Sun 15 Nov · IMPRS-IS doctoral program (2027 hiring round) · Funded via an employment contract (salary per Max Planck/university rules)
Sun 15 Nov · UGREEN Hackathon 2026 on AI NAS · $46,000 in cash
Sun 15 Nov · Wunder Fund RNN Challenge (Connectome) · $13,600 prize pool (1st place $5,000)
✨ New on advance.to this week (12)
Apart Research: Swarm Alignment Hackathon
Apart Research · $4,000 in cash prizes across all tracks + $1,000 in Adaption credits for all members of winning teams · Closes Sun 8 NovApart Research: AI x Epistemics Research Sprint
Apart Research · Cash prizes for top teams (see the sprint page) · Closes Sun 15 NovApart Research: Agent Attribution Hackathon
Apart Research · $2,000 in cash prizes across all tracks · Closes Sun 29 NovUKRI: Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) · Total fund £5,000,000 · Closes Tue 1 DecApart Research: Threat Intelligence & Threat Modelling Hackathon
Apart Research (with Security Level 5) · $5,000 in cash prizes across all tracks · Closes Sun 6 DecUKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum computing
EPSRC and STFC (UKRI) · Total fund £17,000,000 · Closes Tue 8 DecNHS Fellowship in Clinical AI, Cohort 6 (international applicants)
NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI (GSTT) · Funded by an institutional sponsor (overseas employer, government or other body) · Closes Thu 10 DecMIT-IBM Watson AI Lab call for proposals (2027 projects)
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab · Projects expected in the range 100,000 – 300,000 total cost per year · Closes Fri 15 JanVesuvius Challenge: 2027 Grand Prize
Scroll Prize, Inc. (Vesuvius Challenge) · $800,000 to the first team or individual to fully unroll and make readable a scroll · Closes Fri 25 JunIsambard-AI and Zenith (AIRR) Rapid Access route for UK SMEs
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) · 20,000 GPU hours on the Isambard-AI and Zenith AIRR supercomputers, used within three months · Rolling: apply any timeProject Tailwind: funding to start new AI safety organisations
Coefficient Giving · Pre-seed $200k – $2m (research or planning grants over 9-18 months) · Rolling: apply any timeSurvival and Flourishing Fund: Speculation Grants (rolling)
Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) · Expedited grants approved by ~40 Speculators (budgets typically around $400k each) · Rolling: apply any time
📚 Two new guides
UK grants for AI: Innovate UK, UKRI and ARIA explained: Who funds AI work in the UK, who can apply, what "share of up to" really means, and how the deadlines work.
Free GPU time on public AI supercomputers: Isambard-AI and Zenith in the UK, EuroHPC AI Factories in the EU and the NAIRR Pilot in the US: who qualifies, how many hours, how fast.
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