AI grants in Australia

Reimburses Australian businesses for a share of their eligible marketing and promotion spend when they sell or plan to sell products overseas.

Pays Australian exporters and their representative bodies between $20,000 and $80,000 a year in matched funding to market and promote their goods and services in international markets, with the maximum set by their export-readiness tier.

Between cycles

Funds Australian companies through tax incentives that reward innovation investment and reduce financial risk.

Closed

Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.

Closed

Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.

Closed

Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.

Closed

Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.

Funds WA early-stage founders and startups up to $50,000 to commercialise an innovation.

Discontinued

Supports Australian science-based startups with six-month acceleration, mentorship, and early-stage equity from CSIRO pathways.

Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

Open

Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

Open

Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

Open

Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.

Open

Funds an addition to an existing NIH grant, to take a cancer biomarker assay from working in the lab to working in the clinic.

Open

Funds the enhancement of a cancer informatics tool that has cleared prototyping, shows real promise, and has not yet been widely adopted.

Open

Funds the move of an imaging-centred multimodal AI tool from a trained and tested prototype towards real clinical use, as regulated device software.

Open

Funds a company and an academic team to build and test an imaging-centred multimodal AI decision tool, developed as software that is a medical device.

Open

Funds the running costs and continued relevance of a cancer informatics tool that researchers already depend on.

Open

Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.

Awards $2M in prizes across three tracks for open-source AI research advancing progress toward AGI.

Open

Funds theory and method development on how genetic and non-genetic factors together produce variation in complex traits, tested against large existing datasets.