
AI Grant
Get $2,500 in cash for your open source AI project
AI Grant launched on April 5, 2018 with 6 votes, #1,266 of 2,753 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
What it does
AI Grant is a non-profit, distributed AI research lab run by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. They provide funding to brilliant minds across the world to work on cutting-edge artificial intelligence. AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply in under an hour. Fellows get: - $2,500 in cash. - $20,000 each in Google Compute Engine credits. - $5k in CrowdFlower data labeling credits. - ScaleAPI data labeling credits. - Access to the network of other Fellows
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all alternatives →- AGAI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes2018 · ▲323
Hi HN, Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (http://aigrant.org). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strings attached. We've since given away over $100,000 to 30 teams working on different projects. You can see some of them here: http://aigrant.org/#finalists. We just started accepting applications for our third batch! The academic grant application process is burdensome. It's only avalible to a choice few. Applications take days to complete. AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply…
- NANew AI Grant Fellows2017 · ▲9
Hi HN, A few months ago, we announced our AI Grant project. We give $2,500 in cash and $20,000 in GPU training credits to anyone who wants to work on AI research. Today, we're excited to announce our second batch of Fellows! We were flooded with nearly 1,000 applications. Topics were diverse: robotics, NLP, biology, tooling, physics, dataset acquisition, fundamental research and more. The applicants were also diverse, spanning from world-class Google researchers to high school students. Check out https://blog.aigrant.org/new-ai-grant-fellows-43f1c26c13d9 for an overview of the…
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