25 AI deadlines this week, plus 10 new

This is the issue as we sent it on Monday 9 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 #2 · Monday 9 November 2026

167 AI opportunities are open right now. 25 close this week, 14 more close next week, and 10 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 10 Nov – Sun 15 Nov)

• Google Mumbai Data Challenge: Air Quality Mapping & Forecasting
  Closes Tue 10 Nov · $6 000 USD
  Zindi / Google · Open to participants across India (restrictions on page).

• UKRI: Transformative sustainable AI technologies
  Closes Tue 10 Nov · Up to £602,500 FEC per project (UKRI funds 80%)
  UK Research and Innovation · UK research organisations eligible for UKRI funding; projects start 1 Feb 2027.

• 0G Apollo AI Accelerator, Cohort 2
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Up to $2M investment per project (subject to diligence) plus perks
  0G and xBuilders · AI founders building revenue-generating products, building on 0G AI infrastructure; up to 10 startups.

• Amazon Research Awards: AI for Information Security call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on average plus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: AWS Agentic AI call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to ~$70,000 on average plus up to ~$50,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: Amazon Security call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on average plus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: Automated Reasoning call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to $80,000 plus up to $40,000 AWS Promotional Credits
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: Build on Trainium call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · AWS Promotional Credits up to $50,000, or up to $250,000 and beyond
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to ~$50,000 on average plus up to ~$50,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: On-Device Multimodal Perception call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on average plus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Amazon Research Awards: Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception call for proposals (Fall 2026)
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Unrestricted funds up to ~$80,000 on average plus up to ~$40,000 AWS Promotional Credits on average
  Amazon Research Awards · Principal investigators at academic institutions (see ARA program rules for eligible countries).

• Frontier AI: SME Champions, Phase 1
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Share of up to £3.1 million
  Innovate UK · UK registered SMEs, for feasibility studies in frontier AI and ML with a route to scale-up.

• Gates Foundation AI Fellows Program: Africa cohort
  Closes Wed 11 Nov · Paid 12-month limited-term employment (salary not stated on the posting)
  Gates Foundation · Must be able to work legally in Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa or Kenya without visa sponsorship; no relocation support.

• Helmholtz AI Projects Call 2026
  Closes Thu 12 Nov · €500k+ per project (max €250k from the INF plus matching funding from the centres)
  Helmholtz AI (Helmholtz Association) · Researchers at Helmholtz centres; at least two Helmholtz centres must apply jointly.

• PayPal AI Hackathon
  Closes Thu 12 Nov · $67,500 in cash
  PayPal (Devpost) · Above legal age of majority; open in all countries per rules.

• Physical AI Growth Lab
  Closes Fri 13 Nov · Free, equity-free
  UnternehmerTUM Accelerator with Microsoft, Infineon and NVIDIA · EMEA-based or EMEA-focused physical AI/robotics/industrial AI startups with MVP, technical co-founder, ≤20 people, founded within 3 years.

• DSH Hacks V2 (AI and healthcare)
  Closes Sat 14 Nov · $100k+ in prizes
  DSH Hacks (Devpost) · Students aged 13+; online hackathon on AI and healthcare.

• Apart Research: AI x Epistemics Research Sprint
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · Cash prizes for top teams (see the sprint page)
  Apart Research · Open to anyone; no prior AI safety background required; online.

• CMU AI4BIO Fellows (postdoctoral fellowship at the interface of AI and biology)
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · One-year postdoctoral appointment, renewable for a second year (pay not stated on the page)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Center for AI-Driven Biomedical Research · PhD in CS, ML, computational biology, bioengineering, statistics or related, received no more than two years earlier or completing before the start.

• CRUCIBLE: IARPA-funded AI alignment research sprints (AE Studio)
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · $1,000 stipend per two-week sprint plus cloud compute, frontier-model API access and 60+ hours of AE Studio engineering
  AE Studio (funded by IARPA) · Alignment researchers with a hypothesis on one of six questions; universities, companies, labs or independents; early-career and senior welcome.

• Code for a Billion: Bharat Agentic AI Hackathon 2026
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · ₹18 lakh in cash prizes
  Code for India · Builders in India; projects must be deployed on any cloud and open-sourced.

• Constellation Founders Residency
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · No cost, no equity (stipend not stated)
  Constellation · Founders building AI safety/security organisations; Berkeley, 11 Jan – 2 Jul 2027.

• IMPRS-IS doctoral program (2027 hiring round)
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · Funded via an employment contract (salary per Max Planck/university rules)
  International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems · Doctoral applicants in AI, robotics and related fields; start Feb 2027 or later.

• UGREEN Hackathon 2026 on AI NAS
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · $46,000 in cash
  UGREEN (Devpost) · Individuals and teams; companies and some countries excluded (see rules).

• Wunder Fund RNN Challenge (Connectome)
  Closes Sun 15 Nov · $13,600 prize pool (1st place $5,000)
  Wunder Fund · Open online competition predicting market data from anonymised order-book features.

⏳ Closing next week (Mon 16 Nov – Sun 22 Nov)

• Mon 16 Nov · IAPP Westin Fellowship 2027–28 · Not stated by the organiser (one-year research fellowship)

• Mon 16 Nov · Iliad Intensive, January 2027 · Not stated by the organiser

• Mon 16 Nov · NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI, Cohort 6 · Salary cover for competitive posts

• Mon 16 Nov · WASP-HS Postdoctoral Scholarship on Autonomous Systems and Robotics in Society · Stipend approx. USD 73,308 a year for one to two years

• Wed 18 Nov · Efficient, Structured and Controllable AI Systems · Share of up to £1.66 million

• Wed 18 Nov · Techstars AI Health Baltimore 2027 · $220,000 investment per company

• Fri 20 Nov · Lightcone Research Fellowship (first cohort) · Frontier AI model credits (Claude or Codex tokens), hands-on support and travel support to the Paris Agentic AI for Science Summit

• Fri 20 Nov · Mozilla Foundation Incubator: Human-Scale AI cohort · Up to $500,000 over three years without giving up equity (up to $200,000 more possible)

• Sat 21 Nov · DevFest Münster 2026: Agentic AI Hackathon · Not stated

• Sun 22 Nov · Anthropic Residency (paid AI safety research placements) · Paid $350,000–$500,000/year equivalent, pro rated, for a 6-week, 3-month or 6-month placement

• Sun 22 Nov · Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI): 2 calls, $24,500 stipend: GovAI DC Summer Fellowship 2027, GovAI UK Summer Fellowship 2027 (Research and Applied tracks)

• Sun 22 Nov · START Hack League Munich 2026 · €4,000

• Sun 22 Nov · Tarbell Fellowship 2027–28 (AI journalism) · Salaries $75,000–$120,000 during newsroom placement

✨ New on advance.to this week (10)

• CMU AI4BIO Fellows (postdoctoral fellowship at the interface of AI and biology)
  Carnegie Mellon University, Center for AI-Driven Biomedical Research · One-year postdoctoral appointment, renewable for a second year (pay not stated on the page) · Closes Sun 15 Nov

• CRUCIBLE: IARPA-funded AI alignment research sprints (AE Studio)
  AE Studio (funded by IARPA) · $1,000 stipend per two-week sprint plus cloud compute, frontier-model API access and 60+ hours of AE Studio engineering · Closes Sun 15 Nov

• Lightcone Research Fellowship (first cohort)
  Lightcone (CNRS & UC Berkeley) · Frontier AI model credits (Claude or Codex tokens), hands-on support and travel support to the Paris Agentic AI for Science Summit · Closes Fri 20 Nov

• Anthropic Residency (paid AI safety research placements)
  Anthropic · Paid $350,000–$500,000/year equivalent, pro rated, for a 6-week, 3-month or 6-month placement · Closes Sun 22 Nov

• Redtail AI Factory allocations, Winter 2027 (University of Utah CHPC)
  University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) · Allocations of up to 15,000 GPU hours and/or 100,000 CPU core hours per quarter, starting 1 Jan 2027 · Closes Tue 1 Dec

• ELLIS Institute Tübingen: Principal Investigator positions (Hector Endowed Fellows)
  ELLIS Institute Tübingen · Six-year PI positions with a research budget for personnel, equipment and operating costs · Closes Sun 13 Dec

• IncuVersity: AI-Enabled Entrepreneurship Program (2027 cohort, regular round)
  The DO (IncuVersity), Berlin · Two-year programme for a global cohort of 100 builders · Closes Tue 15 Dec

• Sopra Steria Foundation European Grand Prize for Responsible and Sustainable AI (2027)
  Fondation Sopra Steria – Institut de France · €100,000 call for projects · Closes Fri 22 Jan

• Hugging Face Community GPU Grants (for Spaces)
  Hugging Face · GPU hardware upgrade for an approved Space (amount not stated) · Rolling: apply any time

• Northeast India AI Research Fellowship (MWire Labs)
  MWire Labs · 8–12 week remote fellowship: NLP mentorship, co-authorship opportunities and a completion certificate (no stipend stated) · 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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