AI Research Fund Grants

Highlights

• Build realistic evaluations testing if benchmark gains hold in production workflows.
• Create interactive environments capturing complexity of real professional work.
• Improve long-horizon planning and autonomous tool use across extended tasks.

What they offer

• Funding for researcher time, API costs and event attendance
• Access to expert network for human grading and annotation where useful
• Access to internal evaluation infrastructure subject to review
• Introductions to researchers across frontier labs and academia

Ideal candidate

University or nonprofit researcher with a sharp, well-scoped evaluation question who wants frontier models proven on real work and is motivated to publish open datasets and methods for the field.

Requirements

• Researcher at a university, nonprofit, public benefit corporation or small startup not selling AI training data
• Based in the United States or United Kingdom with award made to institution
• Specific, well-scoped research proposal with outputs, timelines and resource needs
• Commitment to publish paper, dataset, methodology or tool under open commercial-use license