Meta Research Awards
Funds academic AI research teams through periodic experimental project awards.
Meta Research issues periodic Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to fund academic research aligned with Meta's mission areas. Awards are paid as unrestricted cash gifts to the faculty member's university — not as in-kind platform credits. Themes published in recent cycles include AI Safety and Security, Content Governance, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Networking and Systems, AR/VR and Reality Labs r…
AI Safety and Security, Content Governance, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Networking and Systems, AR/VR and Reality Labs, Trust and Integrity, Economics and Computation.
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