AI grants in China
Explore AI grants for companies in China. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Chinese innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in China, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in China come first.
Showing 25-48 of 191 grants
NSFC Research Fund for International Scientists
🇨🇳NSFC · China
Supports international researchers at Chinese host institutions with research grants for deep collaboration.
Shanghai AGI Large Models Special Program — First Batch
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds foundational AI groups in Shanghai through AGI Large Models support for early large-scale model research.
Shanghai Key Technology R&D Plan — New Generation IT
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds Shanghai applied-research teams through New Generation IT for AI, embodied intelligence, and data governance development.
Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai returnee scholars through Pujiang programmes for reintegration into local research ecosystems.
Shanghai Sci-Tech Little Giant Project
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai high-tech firms through the Little Giant programme via post-development innovation subsidy.
Shenzhen International Science and Technology Cooperation Project
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shanghai teams with international peers through STIC cooperation funding for joint research exchanges.
Shanghai Rising-Star Plan
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports emerging Shanghai science and technology talent through the Rising-Star programme for career development.
CDB Innovation Sector Loans
🇨🇳CDB · China
Provides China policy loans for large strategic-emerging sectors such as semiconductors, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing.
Hangzhou 131 Young Talent Plan — Selection
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Offers Hangzhou researchers and professionals annual recognition stipends focused on capability development and employer support.
R&D Super-Deduction Tax Incentive
🇨🇳STA · China
Provides Chinese companies a tax deduction framework for qualifying innovation spend through annual tax filing.
SME Development Fund of China
🇨🇳MOF+MIIT · China
Funds Chinese innovative small and medium-sized enterprises via commitments to specialist funds managed by MIIT-linked structures.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Global / Multinational
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
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.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
NIA R01: Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
NIA · United States
Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.
Revision Applications for Validation of Biomarker Assays Developed Through NIH-Supported Research Grants
NIH · United States
Funds an addition to an existing NIH grant, to take a cancer biomarker assay from working in the lab to working in the clinic.
Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the enhancement of a cancer informatics tool that has cleared prototyping, shows real promise, and has not yet been widely adopted.
Model-to-Clinic (M2C) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
NIH · United States
Funds the move of an imaging-centred multimodal AI tool from a trained and tested prototype towards real clinical use, as regulated device software.
PRIMED-AI: Data-to-Model Academic-Industrial Partnerships (D2M-AIP) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data
NIH · United States
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.
Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the running costs and continued relevance of a cancer informatics tool that researchers already depend on.
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
NIH · United States
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.