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OpenAI's AI and Teen Development Research Grant Program makes up to 5,000,000 US dollars available in grants of up to 1,000,000 dollars for independent research on how AI affects adolescent development and wellbeing. Applications opened 8 September 2026 at 8:00 AM PDT and close 6 October 2026 at 11:59 PM PST, with notifications by 13 November 2026, and submission is through the SurveyMonkey Apply platform.
The published scope has four strands: teen usage patterns and developmental outcomes; AI's potential effects on young people's lives; the factors that cause those effects to differ across populations and contexts; and design interventions and safety mechanisms.
The inclusion of the fourth strand is what separates this from a pure effects-measurement programme, since it invites work that proposes and tests product-level safeguards rather than only documenting harm or benefit. The third strand is equally notable: OpenAI is asking specifically about heterogeneity of effect, which is an implicit acknowledgement that aggregate findings about teen AI use have limited policy value.
Review is rolling and conducted by internal researchers and outside experts. Non-profit applicants are preferred and for-profit organisations are explicitly not prioritised, and indirect costs are capped at 10 percent of the grant, both of which shape who can realistically compete.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Applicants must be 18 or older. The affiliation requirement is deliberately broad: an applicant must either hold an affiliation with a research institution or organisation, or have significant experience relevant to child or adolescent development, wellbeing, human-computer interaction, AI impacts or a closely related field. That second route means an unaffiliated researcher or practitioner with a genuine track record in adolescent development can apply, which is unusual for a programme at this award size and worth noting for clinicians, educators and civil-society researchers outside academia. Non-profit focus is preferred and for-profit organisations are not prioritised, so a commercial research firm should expect to be at a disadvantage against a university or non-profit team on equal scientific merit. The binding administrative constraint is the 10 percent cap on overhead and indirect costs, which at most research universities requires a negotiated waiver that must be in hand before submission rather than after award. Proposals should map clearly onto at least one of the four published strands, and work on design interventions and safety mechanisms should be read as genuinely in scope rather than as a secondary interest. Applications are submitted through SurveyMonkey Apply at openai.smapply.org and close 6 October 2026 at 11:59 PM PST; review is rolling, so earlier submission is not penalised and may be advantageous. Questions go to collaborativeresearch@openai.com. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $1,000,000 per research grant (up to $5,000,000 total). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was October 6, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
OpenAI AI and Teen Development Research Grant Program for Research on Generative AI and Adolescent Wellbeing is funded by OpenAI Group PBC. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
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.
The Citi Foundation's 2026 Global Innovation Challenge commits 25,000,000 US dollars in grants of 500,000 dollars each to up to 50 nonprofit organisations, and AI is core to the challenge rather than one theme among many: the call is framed around economic opportunity in an economy increasingly shaped by AI. Three focus areas are published. The first is cultivating AI skills alongside human-centric competencies, a pairing that signals the Foundation is not funding tool training in isolation. The second is expanding digital access through community hubs offering shared devices and open-source AI tools, which is a deliberate bet on shared rather than individual access infrastructure. The third is building NGO capacity by integrating AI into youth employability programmes, meaning the grantee's own operating model is in scope, not only its services. Geographic reach is approximately 70 countries where Citi operates across Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, but US applicants are restricted to 12 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, which makes this substantially more open to international applicants than to most US ones. The process begins with a letter of inquiry due 6 October 2026 at 12:00 pm ET, one per organisation and in English only; organisations advancing to Round 2 must supply externally audited financials from 2024 or later.
On October 1, 2026 the OpenAI Foundation announced the 2026 People-First AI Fund results: $50 million to 163 nonprofits from 1,669 applications, a 9.8% selection rate, across 35 states and DC. The average grant jumped from roughly $195,000 to roughly $307,000 — which means the fund climbed the budget band. Here is what the named grantees reveal about what won, and what the 15 missing states should do next cycle.
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