Meta AI (FAIR) Research RFPs

Meta AI's FAIR team runs its own Requests for Proposals as a separate academic research channel under Meta Platforms Inc. The program funds university research aligned with FAIR's open-research agenda, and the live Diplomacy call shows the shape of the channel: narrowly framed topics, academic recipients, and proposals that are evaluated against a specific research brief. The source material does not publish award amounts on the landing page, but the program family has typically operated in the $50,000 to $100,000 range. Recent and recurring topics include Diplomacy, No Language Left Behind, Machine Learning, Dynabench, and Mephisto. The grants go to academic institutions, with faculty worldwide generally eligible and some calls carrying additional U.S.-based PI expectations. FAIR's RFPs move in rolling cycles, so the practical fit is a faculty team that can respond quickly when a topic opens and then shape the work to a precise experimental setup. The channel is narrower than Meta's general research awards, and proposals tend to succeed when the research question is close to the theme named in the call and the institution can host the award cleanly.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.