XPRIZE Foundation
$119 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough water scarcity solutions.
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XPRIZE Foundation
$11 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough wildfire detection/suppression solutions.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator's core accelerator funds startups in batches with a $500k investment per company, Demo Days, and extensive post-funding support through the alumni network. Batches run continuously, with Requests for Startups signaling priority areas (heavily AI in 2026); applications are taken through the YC apply page.
0G Labs
0G Labs and Blockchain Builders Fund ran the 2026 Apollo accelerator for ten decentralized AI teams. Applications are closed; the ten-week program ran from April 28 through June 25, 2026, with a graduation event scheduled for July 29.
AAIF
Previously offered grants up to $100,000 over 12 months for people building on the open-source Goose AI agent. The former grants URL now serves general Goose documentation and no current apply path is published. A February 2026 winner post remains on the blog.
Adobe Research
A 12-month fellowship from Adobe Research for full-time PhD candidates enrolled at recognized universities in India with at least 12 months remaining in their PhD, working in AI-related fields such as computer vision, NLP, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. It awards a ₹12,00,000 stipend disbursed upfront, one year of Adobe Express Premium, Creative Cloud, and Firefly access, and optional mentorship from Adobe researchers; the 2026 recipients have been selected and applications are currently closed.
Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude Science program offered up to 50 biology and life-sciences projects as much as $30,000 in Claude credits, plus up to $2,000 in Modal compute for select projects. The inaugural application deadline was July 15, 2026, and submissions are now under review.
Foresight Institute
Funds AI-first projects that use artificial intelligence as the primary engine for progress in science and safety, combining grant funding with office space and compute at hubs in San Francisco and Berlin. Foresight has paused general rolling applications while it moves to focused RFPs. Until those RFPs are published it is not accepting further submissions.
DARPA DICE
DARPA and NSF developed AI Forge to fund and manage university-led research in AI interpretability, AI control, and adversarial robustness. Its initial university-capabilities request for information closed June 22, 2026 after receiving nearly 130 responses. No public funding call has opened since that RFI.
AI Grant
Batch-based accelerator for seed-stage AI startups investing $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE plus large compute and tooling credit packages. Four batches totaling 85 funded companies to date; applications for Batch 4 are closed and no later batch is announced.
Horizon Institute for Public Service
The Horizon Institute for Public Service opened the AI Rapid Response Fellowship on 2026-07-01, a funded fellowship placing AI security experts into US executive branch roles at $170K-$250K+. Applications close July 22, 2026.
AI x Animals Pooled Fund
AI x Animals Pooled Fund is a targeted, experimental pooled fund supporting projects that help animal advocates respond to AI. The 2026 request for proposals had more than $300,000 available, expected to support 5-20 projects, and prioritized advocate tools, field-building, and actionable research.
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs posted the Artificial Intelligence for American Competitiveness and Economic Security (AI-ACES) in South Asia opportunity (#DFOP0018586) on grants.gov, with a deadline of August 2, 2026.
AI Security Institute
AISI's Alignment Project funded research to prevent advanced AI systems from behaving dangerously, intentionally or accidentally, with awards up to £1 million per project. Part of over £15M AISI has committed across three grant programs; closed with no current open applications.
AI Security Institute
AISI's Challenge Fund supported UK and international academic institutions and non-profit organizations researching safeguards, control, alignment, and societal resilience to advanced AI risk, with awards up to £200,000 per project. Closed with no current open applications.
Animal Microgrants
Animal Microgrants was a 2026 funding-circle call for individuals and very small organizations working on farm-animal advocacy. Typical grants were £500-£2,500, with exceptional requests up to £5,000; applicants were expected to hear back by the end of March.
Arbitrum Foundation
A concluded $1,000,000 Arbitrum Foundation initiative funding AI-related projects on Arbitrum, marked "Program Complete" on the Foundation's grants page.
ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency)
ARIA committed £100 million to recruit up to ten organizations for its second Activation Partners cohort. Applications are closed and ARIA says it will announce the selected partners later in 2026.
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