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Artificial Intelligence SBIR/STTR Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This NSF SBIR/STTR topic focuses on cutting-edge technologies in deep learning-based AI systems and AI-based hardware. It emphasizes next-generation AI technologies that are safe, reliable, fair, robust, privacy-preserving, and efficient in terms of computational resources, energy, and training data size.
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