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 97-120 of 882 grants
AIM-AHEAD Federated Network Program
🇺🇸AIM-AHEAD · United States
Offers support for federated research infrastructure enabling privacy-aware data sharing across healthcare institutions.
Arkansas Business and Technology Accelerator Grant
🇺🇸AEDC · United States
Funds Arkansas technology and manufacturing startups through accelerator-style grants to strengthen real-world implementation.
ARPA-H Initiatives & Sprints
🇺🇸ARPA-H · United States
Runs fast-turnaround health technology opportunities in United States for high-potential exploratory science and engineering.
ART — NSF 25-548
🇺🇸NSF TIP · United States
Supports university infrastructure growth in technology transfer through NSF research grants.
ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice (Seed)
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Supports translational chemistry and automation platform development through university-linked partnerships.
BARDA Accelerator Network — POC Funding
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Funds proof-of-concept medical countermeasure projects across diagnostics, digital health, and therapeutic platforms.
BARDA Accelerator Network — Proof-of-Concept Funding
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Supports United States health-security teams with early milestone-based funding for proof-of-concept countermeasure work.
Basic Research Grant Program
🇺🇸AEDC · United States
Supports Arkansas institutions with matching grants for original-research costs and stronger academic enterprise collaboration.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Challenge Grant — Investment
🇺🇸PA DCED · United States
Invests in Pennsylvania technology companies through regional partners, using convertible capital structures for growth prototyping.
Bexar County Innovation Fund
🇺🇸Bexar Innovation Fund · United States
Funds Bexar County innovation through startup recruitment, expansion, and training.
BFTP CNP Early Stage Investment
🇺🇸Ben Franklin Tech Partners · United States
Funds early-stage Pennsylvania technology startups with equity-like investment support to strengthen real-world implementation.
BFTP NEP Innovation Partnership (PIPE)
🇺🇸Ben Franklin Tech Partners · United States
Funds Northeast Pennsylvania early-stage tech firms through innovation and assistance grants.
BFTP SEP Investment
🇺🇸Ben Franklin Tech Partners · United States
Supports healthcare and technology companies in Southeastern Pennsylvania with recoverable capital for building and scaling.
BSSC Grant-in-Aid
🇺🇸KEDFA · United States
Funds projects that build technical skills in Kentucky through grant-in-aid support for workforce and educational innovation.
Chemical Process Systems (CPS)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds fundamental research to make chemical and biochemical processes more efficient, sustainable and resilient — from catalysis to separations.
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.
Community GPU Grants
🇺🇸HF · United States
Provides AI builders with in-kind compute to run demanding model training and demonstration projects.
CoMotion Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program (PEP)
🇺🇸CoMotion · United States
Provides one-year support for University of Washington postdocs to test and commercialize disclosed university technologies.
Complement-ARIE — Open Funding (Seed)
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Supports development of human-based new approach methodologies replacing animal models in relevant research.
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds science that only computation or data could reach — and refuses anything using established methods on large datasets.
CPRIT PDR — Texas New Technologies Company
🇺🇸CPRIT · United States
Funds Texas oncology startups in emerging technologies, including digital and life science manufacturing pathways.
DARPA ERIS (Expedited Research Implementation Series)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Backs research teams and institutions for DARPA ERIS in defense innovation, biotechnology, and medical technology.
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.
Delaware Technical Innovation Program (DTIP)
🇺🇸DSB · United States
Administers research teams and institutions for Delaware Technical Innovation in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and hardware.