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"AI Forge (DARPA-SN-26-80)" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
AI Forge (DARPA-SN-26-80) is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Science Foundation (NSF). AI Forge is a joint initiative by DARPA and NSF to catalyze breakthroughs in AI for national security. It focuses on foundational research to accelerate advances in AI interpretability, AI control, and adversarial robustness, aiming to build a research ecosystem around critical AI challenges.
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AI Forge (DARPA-SN-26-80) is funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The RFI closed June 22. Now the forum is standing up. AI Forge is a jointly governed, university-led venture funding interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness in one-year Project Ventures — here's how the 15 challenges, the CAISI tie, and the nonprofit administrator reshape who gets funded.
Read articleNSF X-Labs is unlike any NSF program in the agency's history: it runs on Other Transaction Authority, not a grant; it funds teams up to $1.5M in Phase 0 and as much as $50 million per year in Phase 1; and it demands an 8-page written proposal followed by an invitation-only oral defense in which NSF refuses to look at what you wrote. The Quantum Systems topic closes July 24, 2026. Here is what X-Labs actually is, why the structure signals a new NSF, and who is positioned to win a DARPA-style award from an agency that has never operated this way before.
Read articleOn June 1, 2026, DARPA and the National Science Foundation jointly released the AI Forge initiative — a university-only forum, administered by a nonprofit launching summer 2026, that will fund Project Ventures of roughly $750,000 to $3 million over one-year terms in three thrust areas: AI interpretability, AI control, and adversarial robustness. The RFI on SAM.gov closes June 22 at 5pm ET and is restricted to U.S. universities and military service academies, one authorized submission per institution. Intellectual property is expected to be shared across forum participants, preferably through open-source licensing. This is the most significant joint DARPA-NSF research vehicle in a decade, and it is structured to bypass the frontier-lab model entirely.
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