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Artificial Intelligence grants

Grants for AI companies with genuine technical risk

Nearly every agency now funds AI, which means reviewers see hundreds of applications wrapping a commodity model in a new UI. Awards go to teams with a defensible technical unknown, a novel architecture, a hard data problem, or a domain where general models fail. We help you find and prove that unknown.

Artificial Intelligence research and development work funded by federal grants

$240M+ won by our team

PhD-level specialists, never a template or an AI tool.

Agencies funding artificial intelligence

  • National Science Foundation logo
  • Department of Defense logo
  • National Institutes of Health logo
  • Department of Energy logo
  • Department of Homeland Security logo

Programs that fit artificial intelligence companies

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NSF SBIR: AI

Open topic; strongest fit for foundational or applied ML innovation.

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AFWERX Open Topic

Dual-use AI with a clear Air Force or Space Force end user.

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DARPA programs

Programmatic funding for genuinely frontier approaches.

What reviewers actually score

  • Why an off-the-shelf model does not already solve this
  • Data access, provenance and evaluation methodology
  • Benchmarks and baselines a technical reviewer will respect

Where we work in artificial intelligence

Machine learning
Computer vision
NLP & language models
Autonomy
Edge AI
AI safety & evaluation

Fund your artificial intelligence R&D

Talk to us about your federal funding plans and we'll help you make it happen through effective, results-driven grant writing.