AI grants in the United States
Explore AI grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from US innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United States, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in the United States come first.
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Bakar Award — UC Berkeley / UCSF Collaborative
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds joint UC Berkeley and UCSF teams translating translational research into healthcare impact.
BARD Food Security Technology Accelerator
🇺🇸USDA + Israeli Ministry of Agr · Global / Multinational
Funds U.S.-Israel teams developing food-security technologies through a binational accelerator pairing conditional grants of up to $1 million with required industry co-funding.
BARD Food Security Technology Accelerator
🇺🇸BARD · Global / Multinational
Funds US and Israeli industry-research consortia developing food security technologies at TRL 3–6 through binational conditional grants of up to $1 million.
BFTP CNP TechCelerator
🇺🇸Ben Franklin Tech Partners · United States
Funds local entrepreneurs with accelerator support and pitching assistance to strengthen real-world implementation.
Biological Influence on Ocean Carbon: Novel Modelling Approaches
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Offers funding for United Kingdom researchers developing novel ocean carbon models in deep, open water systems and climate-relevant science.
BIRD Energy
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel energy collaborations across technology, grid optimization, advanced manufacturing, and infrastructure security.
BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN): Coordinating Unit for Biostatistics, Informatics, and Engagement (CUBIE)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the coordinating hub that keeps brain cell atlas data usable, reproducible and shared across the whole BRAIN Initiative network.
Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science
🇺🇸ODSS · United States
Supports transparent science software development for research reproducibility and community collaboration.
Caregiver AI Challenge Phase 1 — Track 1
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Funds United States teams designing AI tools that support caregivers through ACL's Caregiver AI Challenge.
Caregiver AI Challenge Phase 1 — Track 2
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Funds United States teams designing AI tools that strengthen the direct-care workforce through ACL's Caregiver AI Challenge.
CHIPS Metrology SBIR — Phase I
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses developing semiconductor measurement tools, instrumentation, and metrologies for the domestic chip-making supply chain.
Collaborative Seed Grants
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M interdisciplinary faculty collaborations focused on high-risk, high-impact cross-domain research.
Data Archives for the BRAIN Initiative
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports building long-term archives for brain science data and related community resources.
Data Practice Accelerator
🇺🇸PJMF · United States
Offers deep data and artificial intelligence strategy support for nonprofits through the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
Decentralized Artificial Intelligence through Controlled Emergence (DICE)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds theory and algorithms for large teams of AI agents that coordinate themselves while staying under human control.
Development and Testing of a Multi-use Frameworks Playbook for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the design and early validation of frameworks — guidelines, protocols and standard procedures — for building and deploying multimodal medical AI reliably.
DOE Early Career Research Program — ASCR Track
🇺🇸DOE ASCR · United States
Supports grants for early career academic and lab researchers in advanced computing quantum and applied mathematics.
DOE ITO SBIR/STTR Phase I
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses (≤500 employees) developing innovative industrial energy efficiency and cross-sector manufacturing technologies through DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I feasibility grants of up to $200,000.
DOE Office of Science Open Solicitation
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Connects research teams and institutions for DOE Office of Science Solicitation in artificial intelligence, energy systems, and fusion research.
DRIVe EZ-BAA Plus Phase (Advanced Development)
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Funds United States health-security projects transitioning into advanced development after initial defense innovation stages.
DRIVe EZ-BAA Standard
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Supports United States health-security innovators during early development stages with streamlined pathway contracting.
DRKB Early-Stage Repositories
🇺🇸ODSS · United States
Funds biomedical data repositories through cooperative agreements supporting standards and shared knowledgebases.
DRKB Established Repositories — Enhancement
🇺🇸ODSS · United States
Funds continued development and stewardship of established biomedical data repositories for broad access.
Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.