AI Grant
Accelerator·2 programs
Grants for open source AI projects, established in 2017 by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. Funds individual contributors doing foundational open source work on AI tooling, model runtimes and file formats, with no strings attached.
What AI Grant funds
AI Grant BatchAccelerators
AI Grant
$250,000
Equity investment
$250,000 on a no-cap no-discount MFN SAFE for AI-native product startups, plus $600,000 in Azure and partner credits.
AI Grant Open Source GrantsGrants
AI Grant
$5,000–$50,000
Cash
$5,000 to $50,000 for open source AI projects, paid as cash or as compute, with no stated deadline.
Always openOpen source only