1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
Page published May 19, 2026 with a one-month application window closing June 19, 2026.
"Interactivity Research Grants" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
Interactivity Research Grants is sponsored by Thinking Machines Lab. These grants support research that advances interactivity, particularly in human-AI interactivity. Proposals are welcomed on any topic that lays the foundation for interactivity to scale along with intelligence.
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.
Announcing Interactivity Research Grants - Thinking Machines Lab Announcing Interactivity Research Grants We recently published a research preview of interaction models , an approach to AI designed for human collaboration. Collaboration requires interactivity — the capacity of a model to communicate in real time in different modalities in a way that is intuitive for people.
Most AI research in recent years has focused on intelligence and autonomy, with interactivity relegated to secondary importance. We aim to change that — with your help. We are awarding multiple grants of $100,000 (with an additional $25,000 in Tinker credits) for proposals on research that advances interactivity.
We encourage you to apply by June 19, 2026 to [email protected] . We are looking for research that lays the foundation for interactivity to scale along with intelligence. There are many potential avenues of interactivity research to pursue, here are some that we are excited about: Evaluations for real-time multimodal interaction.
How do we benchmark the real-time interaction ability of AI systems in real world use cases? The open research community is uniquely positioned to contribute independent, fair evaluations that push this work forward. Ensuring safety for multimodal real-time AI systems.
How do we detect dangerous requests and behaviors from users across modalities and respond in time? These problems pose unique challenges distinct from turn-based text-only safety. Explaining complex information with generative UI.
As AI systems perform increasingly complex tasks, it is important that they can explain their results in a variety of output formats such as SVG or HTML. How do we enable multimodal AI systems to explain their work so that people understand it? Steering agents during long-horizon tasks.
Current agents are optimized to perform long-horizon tasks autonomously without incorporating human feedback. How can humans effectively obtain real-time updates on the agents’ execution and steer it live? We are interested in training approaches and techniques for this capability as well as evals.
We are not limiting our grants to these specific directions. We welcome proposals on any topic that advances this space. Research on human-AI interactivity is still an emerging field, but we believe in its potential to shape the trajectory of AI development.
We’re excited to support this research and look forward to seeing your ideas.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Researchers (universities and non-profits globally). Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $100,000 (with an additional $25,000 in Tinker credits). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was June 19, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Interactivity Research Grants is funded by Thinking Machines Lab. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This listing is flagged as international in scope. Check the official notice for country-specific restrictions before applying.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
Past winners and funding trends for this program
Britain is making the largest coordinated public investment in AI research in its history — a £1.6 billion UKRI strategy, a £40 million fundamental research lab, and £27 million in alignment grants. The implications reach across the Atlantic.
Read articleSTTR was designed to move university research into commercial products. Here is how academic researchers can use STTR to spin out their lab work and build a company.
Read articleSteel tariffs at 50%, China duties at 54%, and lab equipment costs surging across the board. For researchers already managing flat or shrinking grants, the tariff shock is forcing hard choices between personnel and reagents.
Read article