Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Who Let The Docs Out runs the Automation & Humanity Documentary Fund for independent nonfiction films examining AI safety, alignment, autonomous systems, and their social effects. Its 2026 research grants offer $8,000 for feature projects and $4,000 for short films, alongside monthly virtual sessions.
AWS's 2026 AI & ML Scholars program offered free foundational AI training globally, followed by fully funded Udacity Nanodegrees for the top 4,500 Challenge participants. Applications closed on June 24, 2026.
Amazon Research Awards' Spring 2026 call supported academic post-training research using AWS Trainium. The May 13 submission deadline has passed, with decisions scheduled for August 2026; selected teams may receive up to $50,000 or $250,000 and beyond in AWS promotional credits.
AWS Imagine Grant is an annual program for registered nonprofits using cloud technology to advance their missions. The 2026 U.S. cycle offers three award categories, including up to $200,000 in unrestricted support and $100,000 in AWS credits for the Pathfinder Award. Public applications closed June 5 and the selection process continues through December 2026.
BARDA's DRIVe division uses EZ-BAA to partner with early-stage companies on health-security innovations. The official EZ-BAA page currently reports no open Areas of Interest and directs applicants to other active DRIVe opportunities.
13-week remote part-time program building Black leadership in AI Safety, AI Governance, and AI Security, with mentorship and research projects.
ChainGPT Builder’s Program Season 3 was announced as a Web3 builder intake offering API credits, technical support, and access to the ChainGPT AI stack. The only sourced evidence is a social announcement with no verified standing application route or later season, so the named season is recorded as concluded.
The Chainlink Community Grant Program funded development teams and researchers building a more functional, accessible, and socially impactful smart contract economy. The documented application route now lives under Chainlink's archives path, so public intake is treated as paused until a current apply page is republished.
12-month paid fellowship placing early-career AI talent with US nonprofits; hosts receive a $10,000 implementation grant plus up to $2,500 in Claude licenses/API credits per fellow. The first cohort closed applications on 17 July 2026; Anthropic has not published a later cohort.
Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team sought expressions of interest for work preventing engineered biological threats and improving response capacity. The May 11, 2026 deadline has passed and proposals are under review.
Deep Funding is an AI public-goods mechanism listed by Gitcoin. The 2025 challenge submission window ran February 10 to May 10, 2025. There is no current public apply form as of 2026-08-29.
A GG24 data-science contest that awarded $20,000 for models estimating the relative value of 98 Ethereum repositories and 3,677 dependencies. Submissions closed on May 10, 2026, and the model outputs informed a $350,000 Deep Funding allocation.
Broad Agency Announcement soliciting proposals for the DICE program's research into theory, algorithms, and multi-agent systems for scalable, resilient decentralized AI collectives under human control. Contract-style awards rather than traditional grants.
The Digital Brain Project funds a $5M Open Brain Modeling Initiative to support open, collaborative brain-modeling research.
Funds PI-led teams at accredited institutions up to $500,000 over 36 months to acquire and share neuroimaging data for foundational models of intelligent behavior.
Longview Philanthropy announced a request for proposals for research and applied work on digital minds, seeking applications for project grants, research fellowships, and career development fellowships on the potential consciousness, sentience, moral status, and legal position of AI systems.
A $200M Economic Futures Research Fund for empirical research/policy trials on AI labor-market impacts (prior structure: $10K-$50K awards to economists/data scientists), plus a $150M National Fellowship Program for early-career professionals distributing AI's economic benefits beyond coastal tech hubs. The current Economic Futures page is a research agenda and news index, not an application form.
Open call for external researchers in applied causal inference, labor economics, and productivity to run empirical studies on AI's economic impact via structured collaborations with OpenAI's Economic Research division; research support and data access, no fixed grant figure published.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.