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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AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge — Phase II (Implementation)
🇺🇸Bezos Earth Fund · United States
Supports AI implementation teams addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity globally.
AI for Good Lab Open Call — Washington State
🇺🇸AI for Good Lab · United States
Offers Washington State nonprofits and researchers Azure credits to apply artificial intelligence to sustainability, health, and human rights.
AI Interpretability RFP
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Funds mechanistic interpretability research on detecting and steering deceptive behaviors in artificial intelligence systems.
AI Startup Challenge 2026: Applied AI and the Future of Business
🇺🇸CBS · United States
Awards $40K+ in prizes to graduate-student teams building AI-driven startups.
AI Upskill Accelerator Pilot Program
🇺🇸EDA · United States
Supports United States. manufacturers and industry through AI workforce training partnerships.
Alaska SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸AK DCCED / AIDEA · United States
Supports Alaska small businesses with federal innovation awards using state match funding to strengthen commercialization.
Arizona Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸ACA · United States
Funds Arizona startup growth in AI, health, hardware, and biotech sectors.
ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge — Stage 2
🇺🇸ARPA-I · United States
Supports transportation infrastructure challengers advancing knowledge, construction, optimization, and enabling technologies through ARPA-I competition.
Bakar Award
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds UC Berkeley STEM faculty moving research discoveries toward commercially viable products and services.
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.
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.
Data Practice Accelerator
🇺🇸PJMF · United States
Offers deep data and artificial intelligence strategy support for nonprofits through the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
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.
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.
Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.