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The Microsoft AI for Good Lab Open Call is a grant program awarding $5 million in funding and Azure service credits to organizations leveraging artificial intelligence to address social and scientific challenges. The two-year program provides opportunities for scientific collaboration with Microsoft AI for Good Lab researchers along with Azure cloud computing resources.
Focus areas include sustainability public health education and human rights. Successful applicants demonstrate potential for their concept and data to result in a unique and scalable solution to a major scientific or societal challenge using clean accurate and unbiased high-quality data.
The inaugural 2025 cycle funded 20 projects in Washington state including work at Washington State University on AI for agriculture health and education. The program is expected to continue with future open calls.
This program is distinct from the Microsoft AI for Accessibility grants which focus specifically on disability and accessibility solutions and from the Microsoft Accelerating Foundation Models Research Program which provides compute credits for foundation model research.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Nonprofits academic institutions individual researchers startups and businesses. The inaugural cycle was open to entities based in or benefiting Washington state residents. Future cycles may expand geographic scope. Applicants should demonstrate scalable AI solutions with high-quality data for social or scientific impact. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $5 million total in grants and Azure service credits distributed across approximately 20 selected projects over a two-year program period. Individual award sizes vary based on project scope. Winners also receive the opportunity to collaborate directly with Microsoft AI for Good Lab scientists. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Microsoft AI for Good Lab Open Call Grant Program for Social and Scientific Impact is funded by Microsoft. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in WA. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
The Merck Stimulating Innovative Research Grant Program 2026 includes a dedicated grant topic for artificial intelligence in cell culture media and process development, offering up to EUR 150,000 per year for up to 3 years. The program accelerates innovation through collaborative research, early engagement with industry experts, and translation of novel ideas into practical solutions. In 2026, priority areas also include in-vitro models for neuroinflammatory diseases (EUR 250,000/year for 2 years) and innovative approaches to contaminated materials remediation (EUR 150,000/year for 2 years). The two-stage application process begins with non-confidential submissions, followed by deep-dive workshops where finalists collaborate with Merck scientists and managers to jointly optimize proposals. The AI-specific grant focuses on applying machine learning and AI to optimize cell culture media formulation, bioprocess parameter optimization, and manufacturing quality control.
The Sony Research Award Program is Sony's principal channel for funding external academic research, and the Focused Research Award is its collaborative track: up to 150,000 dollars for focused joint research between a university or research institute and Sony. The 2026 research areas are unusually broad for a corporate program and cover most of the modern AI stack alongside Sony's hardware interests - AI and large language models, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, human-computer interaction, affective computing, speech and language technologies, audio technologies, RF sensing, wireless communications, cybersecurity, sports technology, digital humans, generative AI, content creation and neural rendering, plus device-level areas including MicroLED and optical metasurfaces. For AI and robotics groups this makes it one of the wider corporate calls available, though the breadth is deceptive: Sony funds work that connects to its own research agenda, and proposals are strongest when there is an identifiable Sony research counterpart for the collaboration. Eligibility is tightly drawn around the principal investigator rather than the institution. The PI must be a full-time faculty member or researcher at a recognized institution - Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor or equivalent researcher - and must be able to supervise PhD students. Co-PIs are permitted but must be from the same institution and meet the same requirements, which rules out the cross-institutional consortia common in public funding. The 2026 deadline is 15 September 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific, with a separate India-specific time given as 16 September 2026. Submission guidelines are on the Sony Research Award Program site.
The Meta Research PhD Fellowship supports doctoral students conducting research in areas central to Meta's technical agenda, with several of its annual award tracks dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Current AI-relevant tracks include AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design (high-performance AI algorithms spanning model compression, numerical optimization, benchmarking, and distributed inference and training), Applied Statistics (bias and variance estimation and correction in models and datasets, uncertainty quantification), AR/VR Human Understanding (efficient ML techniques that run on AR/VR devices), and Programming Languages (program synthesis, probabilistic and differentiable programming). Recipients receive two years of paid tuition and fees, a $42,000 annual stipend covering living expenses and conference travel, and a paid visit to Meta headquarters for the annual Fellowship Summit; the award carries no intellectual property claim on the student's research. The 2027 cycle opened August 3, 2026 with applications closing September 20, 2026, reference letters due in October 2026, and winners notified in January 2027.