AI Grant Open Source Grants
$5,000 to $50,000 for open source AI projects, paid as cash or as compute, with no stated deadline.
What you get
“$5,000 - $50,000 in grants for open source projects, no strings attached. Grants can come in the form of compute or cash.”
Can you apply
When
Always open, applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
What AI Grant funds
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.
Everything AI Grant funds →Details
The site is a single page: it states the amount, that grants may be cash or compute (linking Andromeda for the compute option), and lists past and latest recipients, who are named individual open source contributors (llama-cpp-python, the GGUF file format, hlb-CIFAR10). It publishes no application form, no eligibility rules and no deadline, so mechanism is recorded as rolling on the basis that no rounds or cut-offs are advertised, and the apply URL, eligibility text and decision time are left null. Kept as one row rather than two because the cash and compute options carry identical amounts and identical (absent) gates; only the medium of payment differs.