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.
Showing 49-72 of 882 grants
ARPA-H SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸ARPA-H · United States
Funds United States small businesses bridging health and neuroscience technologies from feasibility into advanced development.
NIH SBIR Direct-to-Phase II (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses moving directly into major development when early biomedical feasibility is already established.
NIH SBIR Fast-Track (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Supports United States small businesses with streamlined biomedical pathways from feasibility to continued development.
NIH SBIR Phase I (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses advancing biomedical and behavioral-health innovations through early technical validation.
NIH SBIR Phase II (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses advancing validated biomedical innovations through substantial full development execution.
NIH STTR Phase I (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses partnering with nonprofit research institutions to validate biomedical ideas.
NIH STTR Phase II (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small-business and research-partner teams advancing biomedical projects already proven in early studies.
CICI — Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
🇺🇸NSF OAC · United States
Funds United States cybersecurity research and infrastructure through the NSF to strengthen resilient digital systems.
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds security for the infrastructure science runs on — data, computation, workflows and collaborations, up to $1.2 million per award.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research infrastructure between $4 million and $20 million — the gap between an instrument grant and a national facility.
EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds computing that runs on wave dynamics rather than switches — exploratory grants, or four-year projects up to $2 million.
SEED Research Program
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds UW Madison spin-out research teams to advance commercialization through faculty-led projects.
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research on the upper atmosphere — from the middle atmosphere through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere.
Air Delivered Effects BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Supports United States. air-delivered munitions research through DoD broad announcements and cooperative agreements.
NIMHD Parent SBIR Grant
🇺🇸NIMHD · United States
Funds United States small businesses developing health-disparities technologies through NIH SBIR grants.
NIMHD Parent STTR Grant
🇺🇸NIMHD · United States
Funds United States small businesses partnering with nonprofit research institutions on health-disparities technologies.
Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds work that makes research data genuinely usable by others — portals, data commons, and lower barriers to sharing across disciplines.
Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds computational methods that curate biomedical data at scale, so datasets and models become usable faster than hand-curation allows.
LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC)
🇺🇸AMC · United States
Invests research teams and institutions for LPS Qubit Collaboratory BAA in quantum systems, defense innovation, and artificial intelligence.
Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization — Next Gen Sensor Technology Development
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports neural behavior-sensing technology development through translational cooperative projects.
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds NSF's largest computing awards — up to $15 million over seven years for a research agenda that looks a decade ahead.
Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds national-scale data infrastructure for AI-driven science — up to $30 million per award across nine awards.
NICHD Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the continued operation of a bioinformatics database that the animal-model developmental biology community depends on.
ARO Core BAA — Single Investigator
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Offers core basic research grants across physical, engineering, and information science domains in the Army.