1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
This listing may be outdated. Verify details at the official source before applying.
Find similar grantsAnnual fellowship cycle; selection by closed nomination only
AI2050 Fellows program is sponsored by Schmidt Sciences. Supports scholars focused on AI research. While primarily for individuals, it indicates a broader interest in foundational AI research that could align with developer interests.
Get a weekly digest of new grants like this
A free weekly digest of new foundation and federal funding opportunities as they're added to Granted. Unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
It’s 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome?
This is AI2050’s motivating question. The initiative aims to answer this question by making awards to support work conducted by researchers from across the globe and at various stages in their careers, bringing them together into an interdisciplinary community, and conducting research into the hard problems in artificial intelligence.
AI2050 issues awards to enable and encourage bold and ambitious research, often multi-disciplinary, that is typically hard to fund but socially beneficial. Awards are given for exceptional work tackling one or multiple items from a working list of hard problems. AI2050 awards are selected using a closed nominations process, so there is no application.
AI2050 shares research findings from our Fellows. Work supported by AI2050 is open-source and published, so that society can benefit from this important work. This includes research from the award recipient network, from our collaborations with leading groups, and from the initiative itself.
AI2050 Fellows come from around the globe. Through this initiative, we support talented researchers at various stages of their careers, to help encourage the next generation of researchers to focus on the hard problems in AI. AI2050 Fellows, the broader AI community, and other stakeholders regularly convene to discuss and advance the work of the initiative.
Founder of Schmidt Sciences and AI2050 Co-Chair Founder of Schmidt Sciences Manager of Delivery and Grantee Affairs Schmidt Sciences is a philanthropy dedicated to fostering the advancement of science and technology. We approach this by identifying under-supported or unconventional areas of exploration and discovery in order to accelerate and deepen our understanding of the natural world and develop solutions to real-world issues.
We seek ideas, people, and techniques across disciplines of science and technology to catalyze results for society. Our centers include AI and Advanced Computing, Astrophysics and Space, Biosciences, Climate, and Cross-Science programs.
Key questions and narrative sections extracted from the solicitation.
Aim 1: Characterize and forecast misalignment in frontier AI systems
Aim 2: Develop generalizable measurements and interventions
Aim 3: Oversee AI systems with superhuman capabilities and address multi-agent risks
Scoring criteria used to review proposals for this grant.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Scholars and researchers in AI. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows varies by fellowship (Awarded $18 million to 28 scholars in 2025). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
This listing does not include a published deadline, but it is an annual program. Check the official notice for the current cycle's exact dates.
AI2050 Fellows program is funded by Schmidt Sciences. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
Schmidt Sciences opened a 'Scaling AI Safety for a Multi-Agent World' program with awards up to $1 million and an August 8, 2026 deadline. Against a backdrop of federal research slowdowns, here is why private science philanthropy matters more than ever, how these funders differ from federal agencies, and how researchers should approach them.
Read articleSchmidt Sciences' 2026 Science of Trustworthy AI RFP closes May 17 with two funding tiers — up to $1M (Tier 1) and $1–5M+ (Tier 2) over 1–3 years, with a 10% indirect cost cap. The three research aims target misalignment under distribution shift, predictive-validity evaluations, and oversight of superhuman systems. Here is why the structure favors team-based proposals.
Read articleThe U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research, released July 28, 2026 under EO 14292 and implemented at NIH through NOT-OD-26-101, replaces mitigation with prohibition. It bans dangerous gain-of-function research outright, gates potential DGOF behind government-wide review, and creates International Research of Concern — a research-security regime wearing biosafety clothing. Penalties run to five-year debarment and False Claims Act exposure.
Read article