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Fall 2026 Amazon Research Awards
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 11
The Fall 2026 Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program supports academic and nonprofit research in nine (9) areas:
- Agentic AI
- AI for Information Security
- Amazon Security
- Automated Reasoning
- AWS Cryptography
- Build on Trainium: Agentic, Recursive Improvement of Kernels and Frameworks
- Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation
- On-Device Multimodal Perception
- Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception
The awards are unrestricted funds in varied amounts (around $50K - $80K) and AWS promotional credits depending on the topic area.
For inquiries regarding the ARA, please email research-inquiry@amazon.com
Funding Opportunity - NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)
FY2027 Proposals Required Concept Outlines Due November 19
The new EFRI topic focuses on Wave-Based Computing (WBC), which holds great potential for tasks involving signal and image processing and AI. The EFRI WBC funding opportunity will support foundational research to advance the development of computing approaches that harness the principles of wave dynamics via two tracks.
- Track 1: Exploratory approaches may be funded through EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) awards
- Track 2: Larger, multidisciplinary projects may be funded through four-year awards up to $2M
Full Proposal Deadline: February 11, 2027
Call for Proposals for Cities Deliver: AI Solutions for Public Services
Application Deadline: November 29
Award grants: $500K to $2M over 24 months
OpenAI Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation are launching Cities Deliver: AI Solutions for Public Services to support organizations who are working alongside city governments and using AI to address problems facing city residents. AI has the potential to improve how services reach and support communities. The goal is to support AI solutions grounded in local priorities that use the latest capabilities of Frontier AI tools to improve public service delivery, especially in underserved communities.
Focus Areas
- Public Health
- Economic Mobility
- Environmental Resilience
- Civic Engagement
Two Funding Tracks
- SEED: $500K to <$1M; Early concepts for a first city pilot
- SCALE: $1M to $2M; Solutions piloted in a city with early results
Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative
Application Deadline: December 4, 11:59PM Pacific Time
Award Amount: $800K - $1.8M over 6 years
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative is launching its new phase through 2026 open competition for investigators. There awards are fully unconstrained, six-year research grants intended to provide exceptional scientists with substantial resources and the freedom to pursue ambitious, high-risk, and highly novel research directions - whether experimental, theory, materials synthesis, or any combination of these kinds of research.
CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR EMERGENT PHENOMENA IN QUANTUM SYSTEMS THEORY INVESTIGATORS