AI grants
Explore grants for AI companies. This directory includes funding for machine learning research, foundation models, compute and data infrastructure, trustworthy AI and applied AI in industry, health and public services, from national research agencies, innovation programs and corporate funds, alongside grants open to any sector.
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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 Talent Demonstration Startup Package
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean startups hiring trained AI talent to solve a defined product, service, or operating problem.
AI Upskill Accelerator Pilot Program
🇺🇸EDA · United States
Supports United States. manufacturers and industry through AI workforce training partnerships.
AI-accelerated discovery of chemicals and advanced materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around four projects, each worth EUR 13 million, to use AI and self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of new chemicals and materials.
AI-assisted digital aircraft design, manufacturing and MRO, towards a competitive aviation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into AI-assisted digital twins for aircraft design, manufacturing and maintenance, repair and overhaul.
AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation (Chips JU 2025 call)
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.
AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation (Chips JU 2026 call)
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1
🇪🇺EU · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.
AI-driven forecasting algorithms for Grid and Consumer friendly Energy Sharing – Societal Readiness pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI-driven forecasting tools that help energy communities and consumers share power while easing the burden on grid operators.
AI-generated digital twins for science
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds generative-AI digital twins of complex real-world systems for research infrastructures in fields like healthcare, transport and manufacturing.
AI-powered impact simulations in support of the Destination Earth initiative
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI tools that turn Destination Earth's digital-twin simulations into local, real-time impact assessments for non-technical users.
AI-Powered Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance
🇪🇺IHI JU · European Union
Funds one project to build AI algorithms, data-source guidance and practical tools for faster, more accurate detection of drug safety signals.
AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026
XTC · United States
Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.
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.
Alignment of stakeholders towards the supply-side large-scale pilot of end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities (CSA)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one coordination project up to EUR 2.5 million to align telecom, cloud and edge stakeholders around the EU's 3C Network telco edge cloud pilot.
ANSO Co-funded Research Project
🇨🇳CAS · China
Funds bilateral research collaborations with Belt and Road participation and cross-border execution.
Apply AI: GenAI for the public administrations
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays public-administration consortia to procure and deploy European GenAI tools for citizen services, worth roughly five to seven million euros per pilot.
Apply AI: Pilot of the 'Science for AI' Pillar of RAISE
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one network of leading European AI research institutes EUR 17 million to run a virtual pan-European AI research institute pursuing frontier, fundamental AI science.
Approaches, verification and training for Edge-AI building blocks for CCAM Systems (CCAM Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project developing optimised edge-AI models for real-time perception and decision-making in self-driving vehicles.
ARIA Activation Partners RFP
🇬🇧ARIA · United Kingdom
Offers collaboration opportunities for United Kingdom organizations designing advanced activity hubs across strategic AI opportunity spaces.
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.