AI grants
35 open AI grants, each checked against the organizer's official page. 2 close in the next 7 days and 14 take applications on a rolling basis.
A grant pays for work without buying a share of your company. The money comes from foundations, companies, public agencies and protocol treasuries, and most of it goes to a project, a research question or a piece of open source.
Money for people who build or study AI systems: research grants, compute credits, AI safety funding, fellowships and hackathons built around new models.
Digital Science Catalyst Grant 2026
Up to £25,000 equity free for early stage agentic AI tools that researchers can trust, open to anyone worldwide. Applications close October 5, 2026.
OpenAI AI and teen development research grants
OpenAI offers research grants of up to $1 million on generative AI and teens. Apply by October 6, 2026.
Imminent Research Grants 2026
Imminent Research Grants fund five language technology projects with $20,000 each, open to applicants worldwide. Apply by October 15, 2026.
UKRI explainable AI grant 2026
UKRI funds UK research organisations up to £602,500 for speculative work on explainable AI. Apply by 20 October 2026.
Humanity AI Open Call 2026: grants for community led AI work
Humanity AI offers grants of $75,000 to $1,000,000 to U.S. nonprofits for community led AI work. Apply by October 21, 2026.
Corrigibility Research Fund: round 2 with an October 31 deadline
The Corrigibility Research Fund pays $5,000 to $35,000 grants for research on AI systems that stay correctable. Round 2 closes October 31, 2026.
Foresight Institute AI for Science and Safety Nodes: request for proposals 2026
Foresight Institute offers grants of $30,000 to $100,000, compute and office space for open AI for science and safety projects. Proposals are due October 31, 2026.
ARIA Scaling Trust grants
ARIA Scaling Trust offers grants from £100,000 to £3,000,000 for open source agent security tools. Proposals for this cycle are due 31 October 2026.
ARIA Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity, 31 October 2026 batch
ARIA funds teams that use AI and formal proofs to build secure software, with £2.5 to 3.5 million per Blue Team. The next batch closes on 31 October 2026.
NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs 2026
NSF funds State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs at $4,000,000 to $12,000,000 each. Full proposals are due November 4, 2026.
Amazon Security call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds AI security research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AWS Agentic AI call for proposals: Fall 2026
AWS funds agentic AI research with gifts of no more than $70,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Automated Reasoning call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds automated reasoning research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
On-Device Multimodal Perception call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds on device perception research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Build on Trainium call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon offers AWS credits of up to $250,000 and beyond for research on Trainium kernel agents. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AI for Information Security call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds AI security research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds multilingual AI evaluation with gifts of no more than $50,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
UKRI Transformative Sustainable AI Technologies 2026
UKRI offers grants of up to £602,500 for high risk research on making AI systems more sustainable. Research software engineers can lead. Deadline 10 November 2026.
Helmholtz AI Projects Call 2026
Helmholtz AI funds joint applied AI projects by researchers from at least two Helmholtz centers, with up to €250,000 from the central fund. Apply by 12 November 2026.
Creative Europe MEDIA Innovative Tools and Business Models 2027
The EU Creative Europe MEDIA 2027 call funds new software tools and business models for film, TV and video games, including AI tools, at 80% of costs. Apply by 14 January 2027.
Emergent Ventures grants from the Mercatus Center
Emergent Ventures gives grants to people aged 13 and up with bold ideas to improve society. Applications are open all year, worldwide.
EuroHPC AI Factories Large Scale Access for companies
EuroHPC gives European companies and startups free access to more than 50,000 GPU hours on its AI Factories. Closing dates run twice a month, next on 15 October 2026.
goose grant program
The goose grant program pays $100,000 for a 12 month open source project that builds on the goose AI agent. Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis.
EA Funds Transformative AI Fund grants
The EA Funds Transformative AI Fund gives early stage grants, typically $10k to $150k, for AI safety and governance work. Applications are always open.
Snorkel AI Open Benchmarks Grants
Snorkel AI Open Benchmarks Grants give in kind data services, research time and credits to teams building open AI benchmarks. Rolling applications.
Exponential Science call for project proposals: up to $15,000
Exponential Science funds research projects with up to $15,000 for six to twelve months. Proposals are taken all year on the topics of blockchain, AI and cryptography.
Project Tailwind: Coefficient Giving funding for AI safety founders
Coefficient Giving funds founders who start AI safety organisations, from $200k at pre seed up to $200m at scale. Expressions of interest are taken at any time.
BlueDot Impact Career Transition Grants
BlueDot Impact gives up to $200,000 to people moving full time into AI safety or biosecurity work. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
BlueDot Impact Rapid Grants
BlueDot Impact gives up to $20,000 for a next step in AI safety or biosecurity work, with most applicants hearing back within a week.
Hugging Face community GPU grants
Hugging Face covers the GPU hardware cost of selected Spaces. Maintainers apply from the hardware settings of their own Space and there is no deadline.
Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants
Mercor is putting $5 million into AI safety research grants for independent researchers and small teams. Apply with a short expression of interest.
BlueQubit Quantum Flywheel 2026: $150,000 in quantum and AI compute
BlueQubit is giving $150,000 of quantum, GPU and AI compute to research teams for three months. The open call runs for about five weeks.
Sentient Foundation Open Source AGI Grant Programme
Sentient Foundation has committed $42 million in rolling grants and investments for people building open AI. No deadline.
Anthropic AI for Science program
Anthropic offers researchers up to $50,000 in API credits per project through its AI for Science program. Any researcher can apply, on a rolling basis.
Tether Developer Grants Program
Tether pays developers roughly $1,500 to $4,000 per completed task on its open stack for local first AI and payments. Applications for active grants are open with no deadline.
Questions
How many AI grants are open right now?
35 as of 5 October 2026. 2 close in the next 7 days and 14 take applications on a rolling basis.
Which AI grants close soonest?
Digital Science Catalyst Grant 2026 from Digital Science closes on 5 October 2026. OpenAI AI and teen development research grants from OpenAI closes on 6 October 2026. Imminent Research Grants 2026 from Imminent, Translated's Research Center closes on 15 October 2026.
Can I apply from any country?
26 of the 35 accept applicants worldwide. The others are limited to a region or a country, and each entry says which.
Do any of them take equity?
None of them take equity. They pay as grants, prizes, stipends or credits.
How is this list checked?
Every entry is written from the organizer's official page and links to it. Programs with a rolling deadline are checked again for closure, and an entry moves to the archive on the day it closes.