AI grants, hackathons and bounties
135 open AI funding programs, each checked against the organizer's official page. 16 close in the next 7 days and 29 take applications on a rolling basis.
Money for people who build or study AI systems: research grants, compute credits, AI safety funding, fellowships and hackathons built around new models.
AI Entrepreneurs Lab 2026
EIT's AI Entrepreneurs Lab is a five day founder bootcamp for Master's and PhD talent in AI and robotics, with up to five €10,000 prizes. Apply by 21 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.
Gray Swan Arena: Indirect Prompt Injection Black challenge 2026
Gray Swan's Indirect Prompt Injection Black challenge pays from a $300,000 prize pool for successful attacks on AI agents. Wave 1 runs until 22 October 2026.
Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026
Amazon offers $138,000 in cash prizes for demo ready apps built for Fire TV, Alexa+, Bee and Ring. Open worldwide, submissions close October 23, 2026.
Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon 2026
Airwallex offers $100,000 in prizes and credits for agents built on its APIs. Applications close 23 October 2026.
IEEE ClimateChain Global Hackathon 2026
Online IEEE hackathon for blockchain and AI tools on climate problems. $3,000 in cash prizes, submissions October 5 to 25, 2026.
Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon 2026
Ten day online hackathon from Meta with a $1,000,000 cash prize pool for indie developers and startups. Apply by 25 October 2026.
OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWS
The OpenCV AI Competition 2026, sponsored by AWS, pays $20,250 in prizes and compute grants for computer vision projects. Entries close on October 26, 2026.
Build With AI: Basics
Build With AI: Basics pays a $2,500 prize pool for a new app built with AI skills. Submissions close on 26 October 2026.
GitLab Life After Code Hackathon 2026
An online GitLab hackathon for AI agents that automate code review, security, testing and deployment, with $45,000 in cash prizes. Submit by 27 October 2026.
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowship 2027
The ETH AI Center in Zurich offers 8 to 12 paid doctoral fellowships in AI, with a salary from CHF 73,100 a year. Apply by 27 October 2026.
ETH AI Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027
ETH AI Center postdoctoral fellowships in Zurich pay CHF 92,500 in year one and CHF 97,200 in year two for AI research. Apply by 27 October 2026.
AWS Communication Developer Services Agentic AI Partner Hackathon 2026
AWS pays a $40,000 prize pool for agentic AI built on its communication services. Open to AWS Partners until October 28, 2026.
Anthropic Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship. Apply by 28 October 2026.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: DeepRAP trustworthy cognitive AI
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million for research on AI that can reason, abstract and plan. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
Anthropic STEM Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month STEM Fellowship for PhD scientists and engineers. Apply by 28 October 2026.
TUM Blockchain & AI Hackathon 2026 in Munich
In person hackathon in Munich on 30 and 31 October 2026 for blockchain and AI builders, with €10,000 in prizes. Apply on Devfolio by 29 October.
Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon
Nebius and NVIDIA offer $50,000 in cash for working AI systems built on Nebius with NVIDIA open models. Submissions close October 30, 2026.
HackFW MADE Challenge 2026
HackFW MADE Challenge is a North Texas hackathon on AI, hardware and software for manufacturing, with $1,900 in prizes. Submissions close on 30 October 2026.
huntr Blind Trust AI hacking challenge 2026
huntr pays $15,000 in prizes to people who trick AI assistants into leaking secrets in its Blind Trust challenge. It ends October 30, 2026.
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program 2027 to 2028
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship gives up to $60,000 per award to PhD students working on accelerated computing. Apply by 30 October 2026.
Qloo Agentic Hackathon 2026
An online hackathon for apps that put the Qloo API into AI agents, with $25,000 in prizes. Submit by 30 October 2026.
EuroHPC AI for Science and Collaborative EU Projects Access: 30 October 2026 cut off
EuroHPC gives researchers in Europe six months of supercomputer time for science projects that use AI. The next cut off is 30 October 2026, then 11 December.
NEURA Research Programme 2026/2027: Physical AI call for proposals
Up to €500k per project for universities, research institutes and startups in the EU, UK or Switzerland that bring Physical AI robot skills to a real pilot. Proposals close 30 October 2026.
University of Chicago AI in the Workplace Fellowship, Spring 2027
University of Chicago fellowship with up to $25,000 for faculty and PhD students studying how AI changes work. Apply by October 30, 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.
MATS Residency Winter 2027: paid AI safety research
The MATS Residency pays $155,000 to $285,000 a year for AI safety research in London, Berkeley or Washington DC. Applications close 31 October 2026.
Galuxium Nexus V2 hackathon
Galuxium Nexus V2 is an online hackathon for building paid software products, with $14,944 in prizes and a submission deadline of 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.
Constructor Start accelerator 2026
Constructor Start is a free 10 week online accelerator. Demo day winners may get up to USD 300,000 for equity. Apply by 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.
ELLIS PhD Program: call for applications 2026
The ELLIS PhD Program pairs machine learning students with advisors in Europe. Apply by 31 October 2026.
Processing Foundation Fellowship 2027
Eight month paid fellowship with a $10,000 stipend to build open source creative coding tools on p5.js and Processing. US only. Nominations close 1 November 2026.
Pivotal Research AI Safety Fellowship Q1 2027
A 15 week, full time AI safety research fellowship in London with a £15,000 to £18,000 stipend plus housing. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Generator Residency Winter 2027 for AI safety generalists
Generator is a three month residency in Berkeley for AI safety generalists, with a $8,500 monthly stipend and travel covered. Apply by November 1, 2026.
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize 2026 offers $2M in prizes across three tracks for open source progress on the ARC-AGI benchmarks. Submissions on Kaggle are due November 2, 2026.
YouCam API Skin AI & eCommerce VTO Hackathon 2026
Perfect Corp. offers $6,000 in prizes for web or mobile apps built on its YouCam APIs for beauty, fashion and online shopping. Submissions close 2 November 2026.
AWS, CrowdStrike and Nvidia Cybersecurity Accelerator 2027
An 8 week equity free accelerator for seed stage security startups, mentored by AWS, CrowdStrike and NVIDIA. Apply October 5 to November 2, 2026.
0G Apollo Accelerator Cohort 2
0G Apollo Cohort 2 offers up to $2 million for up to 10 AI startups building on 0G. Applications close 2 November 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.
Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon offers research gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits, for synthetic perception data. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
UNICEF Femtech Ventures 2026: second call for open source startups
UNICEF Femtech Ventures gives open source startups up to US$100,000 equity free and 12 months of mentoring for women's health tech. Apply by 4 November 2026.
NSF AI Datasets 2026: grants up to $5 million to make science data ready for AI
NSF grants of up to $5 million to make existing science datasets usable by AI. Open to US universities, labs and companies. Deadline November 4, 2026.
Since AI Hackathon 2026
Since AI Hackathon 2026 is a free 72 hour event in Turku, Finland, with €50,000 in cash prizes. It runs November 6 to 8, 2026.
UKOMAIN OMAIB Round 3 call for proposals
UKOMAIN funds up to £50,000 to build an open multimodal AI benchmark. Challenge proposals close 6 November 2026.
DSH Hacks V2: student hackathon on AI and healthcare
DSH Hacks V2 is an online student hackathon on AI and healthcare with $42,234 in prizes. Projects are due on November 7, 2026.
Vultr: Agent Rush Hackathon
Vultr and lablab.ai offer a $9,000 cash prize pool plus $5,000 in credits for sandboxed AI agents that do real work. Online build November 3 to 8, 2026.
Learn AR with SPECS 2026
Online Devpost hackathon with $2,500 in cash for a new AR Lens for Snap SPECS glasses, built by an AI coding agent. Submit by 9 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.
Frontier AI: SME Champions 2026, Phase 1 grants from Innovate UK
Innovate UK grants for UK SMEs to test new frontier AI and machine learning ideas. Projects cost £150,000 to £250,000. Apply by 11 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.
PayPal AI Hackathon 2026
PayPal offers $67,500 in cash for projects that use PayPal and AI. Submissions close 12 November 2026 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship 2027
Jane Street covers a year of tuition and pays a $50,000 stipend to PhD students in computer science, maths, physics or statistics. Apply by 13 November 2026.
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026
NASA runs its yearly global hackathon on November 14 and 15, 2026. Registration is open and teams of up to six people work on 14 space challenges.
IMPRS-IS doctoral program 2027: funded PhD positions in AI and intelligent systems
IMPRS-IS offers funded doctoral positions in AI, machine learning and robotics in Stuttgart and Tübingen. Apply by 15 November 2026 for the 2027 round.
Code for a Billion: Bharat Agentic AI Hackathon 2026
Code for India offers a ₹18,00,000 prize pool for open source AI agents that solve public problems. Submissions close 15 November 2026.
Iliad Intensive January 2027
The Iliad Intensive in January 2027 is a free four week AI alignment course with a $5,000 travel and housing allowance. Apply by 16 November 2026.
WASP-HS postdoctoral scholarship on autonomous systems and robotics
WASP-HS pays about USD 73,308 a year for a postdoc at MIT on autonomous systems. Apply by 16 November 2026.
Techstars AI Health Baltimore 2027
Techstars invests $220,000 per company in its AI Health Baltimore accelerator. Applications for the 2027 programme close on November 18, 2026.
Northwestern Medicine Techstars Healthcare Accelerator 2027
The Northwestern Medicine Techstars Healthcare Accelerator takes six health tech startups to Chicago for three months. Apply by 18 November 2026.
Efficient, Structured and Controllable AI Systems 2026
UK SMEs can apply for a share of £1.66 million to test new reusable AI mechanisms. Closes 18 November 2026.
AFFINE Alignment Seminar Winter 2027 in Portugal
The AFFINE Alignment Seminar is a free four week AI alignment residency in Portugal in January 2027, with a $1,000 stipend. Apply by November 22, 2026.
Tarbell Fellowship 2027 to 2028: paid year as an AI reporter
The Tarbell Fellowship pays $75,000 to $135,000 for a year as an AI reporter at a partner newsroom in the U.S., U.K. or Hong Kong. Apply by 22 November 2026.
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan: 2027 cohort
The Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan pays $81,000 a year for two years of AI driven science. Apply by November 23, 2026.
RAISE Doctoral Networks for AI in Science 2026
The RAISE pilot funds MSCA Doctoral Networks where PhD candidates build new AI tools for their science field. €30 million budget, deadline 24 November 2026.
FinTech Innovation Lab New York 2027
Free 12 week programme in New York that pairs fintech and AI startups with executives from 40+ financial institutions. No equity taken. Apply by 25 November 2026.
Google Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition 2026 on Kaggle
Kaggle competition from Google DeepMind to train Gemma 4 into an offline coding agent. $100,000 in prizes; join by 25 November 2026.
RobotX PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027 at ETH Zurich
Paid PhD and postdoc fellowships in robotics at ETH Zurich, with one application seen by up to three RobotX professors. Apply by 27 November 2026.
Cities Deliver 2026: AI Solutions for Public Services grants
Cities Deliver gives grants of $500,000 to $2 million to groups building AI tools for city public services with a city partner. Round 1 is due 29 November 2026.
EU-LAC Digital Accelerator open call #6 (2026)
EU funded accelerator for corporate and startup pairs from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Startups get up to €10,500 in grants. Apply by 30 November 2026.
Lablab x AMD AI Academy Challenge
lablab.ai and AMD run a three month online challenge for individual AI builders with a $5,000 prize pool. It runs from September 1 to December 1, 2026.
Simons Institute Research Fellowship: Diffusion Generative Modeling, Fall 2027
The Simons Institute offers a research fellowship on diffusion generative modeling for Fall 2027. Apply by 1 December 2026.
Simons Foundation Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI Awards 2026
Simons Foundation grants from a $6 million pool for science and math research that uses Empire AI GPU clusters. Apply by December 1, 2026.
UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering 2026
UKRI offers up to £250,000 for UK teams pairing AI with a science or engineering field. Apply by 1 December 2026.
INSEAD AI Founder Sprint 2027
A free 10 week online INSEAD sprint for early stage founders who build with AI. No equity, cash prizes at Demo Day. Apply by 1 December 2026.
Horizon Europe 2026: data sharing for AI foundation models in the energy sector
Horizon Europe grants of about €10 million each to build AI foundation models for the energy system on shared data. €30 million in total, deadline 1 December 2026.
Brazil AI, Enterprise Tech and Digital Transformation Canadian Technology Accelerator 2027
A free hybrid accelerator for Canadian AI and enterprise tech companies entering Brazil, with a market week in São Paulo. Apply by 2 December 2026.
Oxford Technical AI Governance DPhil Studentships 2027
Fully funded Oxford DPhil places on the technical side of AI governance, from compute and hardware to model evaluations. Apply by 2 December 2026 for October 2027 entry.
GEMS Prize Challenge 2026
The U.S. Department of Energy offers $300,000 in prizes for algorithms that find hidden geologic faults in geophysical data. U.S. only, closes December 3, 2026.
Princeton CITP Fellows Program 2027 to 2028
Princeton's CITP Fellows Program offers fully funded, in person fellowships for 2027 to 2028 in tech policy, AI and security. Apply by 7 December 2026.
BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for decision critical systems 2026
Innovate UK offers UK AI firms a share of up to £5 million to deploy tools for high stakes decisions. Closes 8 December 2026.
BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst 2026: AI for Assurance and Compliance
Innovate UK grants of £100,000 to £200,000 for UK AI SMEs to prepare compliance and assurance AI for real use. Apply 21 October to 8 December 2026.
BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for operational systems 2026
Innovate UK grants of £100,000 to £200,000 help UK AI firms run live operations. Apply from 21 October to 8 December 2026.
NEXT AI 2027 accelerator for Canadian AI startups
Free NEXT AI accelerator for Canadian AI startups, with no equity taken. Applications open 15 October 2026 and close 9 December 2026.
IHS AI and the Workforce research grants 2026 for faculty
The Institute for Humane Studies offers faculty up to $20,000 for research on how AI changes work and jobs. Apply by 15 December 2026.
Prezenti Season 3 grants for Celo builders
Prezenti Season 3 funds Celo projects through Frontier grants of up to $15,000 for AI and agent infrastructure and Anchor grants for products with traction. Applications close 29 December 2026.
Infineon Boss Battle in the AI Arena 2026
Infineon is running a hardware contest on the PSOC Edge E84 AI kit with a $2,000 prize pool. Submissions open 13 October 2026 and close 3 January 2027.
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.
HIIG Impact AI Fellowship 2027 in Berlin
Ten week HIIG fellowship to assess the impact of AI projects for sustainability and the public interest, with a €5,000 stipend. Apply by 15 January 2027.
Smart Buildings Competition 2026 on Kaggle: $40,000 for AI that controls building HVAC
Kaggle competition to train HVAC control policies that work in buildings they have never seen. $40,000 in prizes, final submissions by January 15, 2027.
Horizon Europe 2027: Human/AI collaboration for the workforce of the future
Horizon Europe grants of €4 million to €6 million for new AI approaches to human and machine collaboration in factories. €30 million in total, first stage deadline 2 February 2027.
RAISE Automated Scientific Discovery call 2027: AI for self driving labs
Horizon Europe grants of about €9 million per project to add AI decision making to automated science labs, in materials science and food. Apply by 2 February 2027.
Decentralize AI Hackathon by HackerNoon
A $51,750+ prize pool and $35,000 in compute credits for developers building open AI infrastructure. The second round of entries ends on February 27, 2027.
RICH Hub Climate AI Innovation: support and scaling grants for African climate AI
African climate AI projects at pilot stage can ask the RICH Hub for coaching, pilots and scaling grants of up to USD 200,000. Expressions of interest are reviewed on a rolling basis.
OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty on Bugcrowd
OpenAI pays $250 to $7,500 per accepted report for safety and abuse flaws in its agentic products and platform. Public on Bugcrowd, open all year.
NAIRR Pilot resource requests: free AI compute and models for US researchers
The NAIRR Pilot gives US researchers and educators free access to AI computing, models and platforms for 12 month projects. Requests are reviewed monthly.
XRPL AI & Fintech Hackathon NYC 2026
In person XRP Ledger hackathon in New York on 24 and 25 October 2026 for AI agent payments and onchain lending, with $40,000+ in prizes.
Create AI Agents Championship 2026/27
The Create AI Agents Championship gives a USD 150,000 grant to the winner of each of four categories for building an AI agent. Free to enter.
Fulcrum AI safety entrepreneurship sprint by BlueDot and Entrepreneurs First
Fulcrum is a free 7 day remote sprint for people starting AI safety projects. Finishers can be considered for BlueDot grants and Entrepreneurs First investment.
Swiss AI Initiative small compute grants
The Swiss AI Initiative gives Swiss research teams up to 32,000 GPU hours on the CSCS Alps system for six months. Rolling, reviewed monthly.
Gauntlet AI Cohort 8
Gauntlet AI covers travel, housing, food, and compute for a ten week fellowship. Cohort 8 starts 25 January 2027. Applications are rolling.
Claude for Open Source: free Claude Max for maintainers
Anthropic gives open source maintainers and active contributors six months of free Claude Max 20x. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
GTR AI Safety Fund
The GTR AI Safety Fund backs people and early stage groups working to reduce catastrophic AI risk from a €50 million pool. Rolling applications.
Coefficient Giving capacity building grants for transformative AI risks
Coefficient Giving funds training, events, groups and media that help people work on risks from advanced AI. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
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.
AI for Good Innovation Factory 2026/27: UN startup pitching and accelerator
The AI for Good Innovation Factory runs monthly pitch sessions for AI startups until May 2027. The Grand Finale winner gets $20,000.
Perplexity Research Fellowship
The Perplexity Research Fellowship pays a $180,000 or $220,000 annualized salary for 3 months of full time AI research. Applications are rolling.
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.
Adobe bug bounty program on Intigriti
Adobe moved its bug bounty to Intigriti on 1 September 2026. Rewards go up to $15,000, with a bonus tier for Adobe AI features.
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.
Anthropic Fellows Program: January 2027 cohort
Anthropic Fellows get a weekly stipend of $3,850 and about $15k a month for compute for four months of AI safety or security research. Applications for the January cohort are open.
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.
NVIDIA Inception programme for startups
NVIDIA Inception gives startups free cloud credits, preferred hardware pricing and technical training. There are no fees, no deadlines and no cohorts, so companies can apply at any time.
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.
Google AI Vulnerability Reward Program
Rolling bug bounty from Google for security flaws in its AI products, with one set of rules and reward tables. Content safety issues are out of scope.
Claude Corps fellowship
Claude Corps is a one year paid fellowship at nonprofits across the United States for people early in their careers, with an $85,000 salary. Applications are rolling for the 2027 cohorts.
The Open Accelerator Residency, February 2027 cohort
A 16 week residency in Boston for early stage AI startups that build for business, with investment from IBM Ventures. Applications open on September 15, 2026 for the cohort starting February 1, 2027.
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.