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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Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox
DND Canada · Canada
Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.
Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud
Aliyun · China
Pays a combined $70,000+ prize pool, with no equity taken, to individual developers, teams and startups worldwide who build AI applications using Qwen Cloud's models in an online hackathon.
Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities Fund — Career Development & Transition
Coefficient · United States
Funds individual transitions into global catastrophic risk work through career development support.
Grand Challenges — Ultralow-Cost Diagnostics and Screening for Low-Income Countries
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.
How Tokenization, AI, and Quantum May Reshape Institutional Financial Markets
Wazoku · United Kingdom
Awards up to $500 for sharp expert insight on tokenization, AI and quantum in finance.
Illuminating AD/ADRD Genome to Enable Precision Genomic Medicine
NIH · United States
Funds cross-ancestry, cross-species genomic studies of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, aimed at therapeutic targets for precision medicine.
Improving Chronic Conditions Through Inexpensive Interventions
NIH · United States
Funds a consortium of researchers, clinicians and EHR vendors building AI-enhanced platforms that scale proven primary-care interventions for older adults.
Investigator Initiated Innovation in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of the same computational genomics work — new methods, early tools, or hardening software the field depends on.
JST GSC Initiative: International Research Program
JST · Japan
Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.
K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC)
MSS · South Korea
Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.
LINGUA Africa Open Call
AI for Good Lab · United States
Supports African-language AI development through grants and compute resources focused on language inclusion.
Meta AI FAIR RFP — Diplomacy
Meta · United States
Funds human-AI diplomacy research to improve collaboration and negotiation systems.
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.
Navigating Transformative AI — AI Governance
Coefficient · United States
Supports projects on governance, safety policy, and coordination in advanced AI systems.
Novel Approaches to Advance Precision Aging and Cognitive Health
NIH · United States
Funds machine-learning and adaptive-design methods that build individual profiles, aimed at personalised prevention for cognitive and brain health.
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
NVIDIA · United States
Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.
OrbitalAI Φsat-2
ESA · Global / Multinational
Rewards teams for AI tools that process Earth-observation data onboard satellites.
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.
RAISE the STAKES
RAISE Summit · France
Awards AI startups up to $350K in cloud credits for pitching live at its Paris summit.
Rice Business Plan Competition
Rice Jones School · United States
Funds student-led startup teams competing for investment, non-dilutive cash, and in-kind prizes at Rice University.
Slack Agent Builder Challenge
Salesforce · United States
Pays a combined ₹39.06 lakh prize pool, no equity taken, to developers and teams worldwide who build AI agents on Slack's platform using low-code or no-code tools.
XPRIZE Quantum Applications — Phase II
XPRIZE · United States
Funds quantum application teams bridging fundamental discovery to practical deployment-ready technologies.