Funding

Grant

Research ProgramRemote

AI Grant — Grants for Open-Source Projects

AI Grant

Application Deadline

Rolling admission

Official Page

AI Grant supports open-source artificial intelligence projects with cash or compute grants. It was established in 2017 by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.

The current site highlights recent grants for llama-cpp-python, the GGUF file format, and fast model training. The work is project-based and does not require relocation.

Benefits & funding

  • Grant value: $5,000–$50,000.
  • Support may be provided as cash or compute.
  • The funding is described as having no strings attached.

Eligibility

  • The proposed work must be an open-source AI project.
  • The current official page publishes no nationality, residence, age, degree, gender, or experience restriction.
  • No physical attendance requirement is published; recipients work remotely on their own projects.

Can you apply?

Open to all applicants

No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.

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Application process

  1. 1
    Check the current official page for an active application link; none is published there at present.
  2. 2
    If a new application route appears, follow its instructions and submit the requested project information.

Program timeline

  1. AI Grant was established.

    2017

  2. Current cycle

    No application opening, deadline, decision date, program start, or program end is published.

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