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The AWS Imagine Grant is Amazon Web Services' annual unrestricted funding programme for United States nonprofits, and the Pathfinder Award is the track explicitly aimed at frontier artificial intelligence, naming generative AI, agentic AI and autonomous systems as the core workloads it wants to fund.
Pathfinder is the largest of the three tracks at up to 300,000 US dollars, combining up to 200,000 dollars in unrestricted cash with up to 100,000 dollars in AWS promotional credits.
The unrestricted cash component is the distinguishing feature: most corporate AI programmes for nonprofits offer credits alone, which leaves recipients unable to pay the staff needed to use them, whereas Pathfinder can fund salaries and contractors directly.
The two other tracks remain open to AI-adjacent work at smaller scale, with the Go Further, Faster Award offering up to 150,000 dollars cash plus 100,000 dollars in credits for innovative cloud projects and the Momentum to Modernize Award offering up to 50,000 dollars cash plus 20,000 dollars in credits for infrastructure modernisation.
Eligibility covers registered United States 501(c) nonprofit organisations of any annual budget size across all mission areas, with educational institutions excluded. Prior applicants may reapply, while previous winners are asked to wait one calendar year.
The process is two-stage: the Round One application portal closes on 5 June in the annual cycle, and Round Two is by invitation only with a mid-September close, so applicants should plan around the June date as the operative deadline.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Registered US 501(c) nonprofit organisations of any annual budget size, across all mission areas; educational institutions are excluded. Prior applicants may reapply and previous winners should wait one calendar year. Round One closes in early June; Round Two is by invitation only. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $300,000 per Pathfinder award ($200,000 unrestricted cash plus $100,000 in AWS promotional credits); other tracks award up to $250,000 and up to $70,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for AWS Imagine Grant Pathfinder Award for US Nonprofits Building Generative AI, Agentic AI and Autonomous Systems Workloads are due June 5, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
AWS Imagine Grant Pathfinder Award for US Nonprofits Building Generative AI, Agentic AI and Autonomous Systems Workloads is funded by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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Amazon Research Awards gives unrestricted gifts to academic researchers working on topics Amazon cares about. The Fall 2026 call covers nine topics: Agentic AI; AI for Information Security; Amazon Security (using AI on hard security problems); Automated Reasoning for systems assurance by mathematical proof; AWS Cryptography; Build on Trainium (agentic recursive improvement of kernels and frameworks); Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation; On-Device Multimodal Perception; and Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception. Awards go to the PI's academic institution or organization. Recipients are encouraged to publish their results and open-source related code, and each is assigned an Amazon research contact. Amazon extended the Fall 2026 submission deadline to November 11, 2026. Each topic has its own CFP page with amounts and eligibility details.
Google's Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition on Kaggle, launched 23 September 2026, challenges entrants to post-train Gemma 4 open models into autonomous coding agents. The agents must run offline on consumer hardware, navigate large codebases and draft fixes for real software issues. Fine-tuning, including LoRA, and reinforcement learning are encouraged, and one submission is allowed per day. The $110,000 prize pool covers a main leaderboard track paying $37,000, $18,000 and $10,000 for the top three. A separate paper track carries $35,000 with its own 12 November 2026 deadline. A $10,000 bonus goes to the best agent built on the smaller Gemma E2B or E4B models. Winning solutions are released under Apache 2.0, and top entries may be featured at a Google-hosted event such as a NeurIPS expo workshop. The entry deadline is 25 November 2026, and final submissions are due 2 December 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC.
The Enveda CASMI 2026 competition on Kaggle is the 2026 Critical Assessment of Small Molecule Identification challenge. It launched on 14 September 2026 and is sponsored by Enveda Therapeutics. Entrants build machine-learning models that predict 2D chemical structures, as SMILES strings, from LC-MS/MS tandem mass spectra of natural products in complex biological extracts. Models must handle both known and novel molecules, going beyond spectral library matching. The stated applications are drug discovery and finding disease biomarkers. The $50,000 prize pool pays $16,000, $12,000, $9,000, $7,000 and $6,000 to the top five teams. Winning solutions are released under the MIT licence, and the data is limited to competition and non-commercial academic use under CC BY-NC 4.0. The entry deadline is 7 December 2026, and final submissions are due 14 December 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC.