AI Catalyst Grants

CIFAR program providing short-term, flexible funding to catalyze new interdisciplinary machine-learning research collaborations across domains including AI safety and alignment, misinformation/information integrity, trustworthy and interpretable LLMs, real-world deployed-system safety, AI auditing and fairness, and privacy-preserving techniques. Awards have run annually since at least 2020; a recent call funded the program's first AI-safety-specific Catalyst Grants under the national strategy. Apply by contacting CIFAR directly; no standing application URL found.