AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
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…
AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes launched on April 5, 2018 with 323 votes, #42 of 2,753 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
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AI Grant is a nonprofit funding program that provides $2,500 grants to individuals and teams working on AI projects worldwide. The application process takes under an hour and is open to anyone online, unlike traditional academic grants. Recipients also receive computing credits, data labeling services, and access to a network of fellow researchers. The program aims to support promising AI work without restrictions or strings attached.
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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…
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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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