Innovate UK Frontier AI Discovery
Innovate UK·United Kingdom
Short discovery projects of £25,000 to £50,000 total eligible costs to advance frontier AI, machine learning and foundation models in the UK; the 2026 round has closed.
What you get
“Your project's total eligible costs must be between £25,000 and £50,000.”
Can you apply
UK registered organisations can apply, including businesses of any size, research organisations, research and technology organisations, charities, not-for-profits, public sector organisations and NGOs.
When
Not open right now, and no next round has been announced.
Past rounds
- Frontier AI Discovery 2026closed 10 Jun 2026
What Innovate UK funds
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, funds UK-registered businesses to bring high-impact innovations to market through competitive, time-boxed grant competitions, including a recent series of frontier AI and sovereign AI competitions run with DSIT.
Everything Innovate UK funds →Details
Part of Innovate UK's Frontier AI R&D Consortia series. Projects run up to three months, must start by 1 October 2026 and end by 31 January 2027. A minimum of £2.5 million was allocated to this competition. Amounts shown are total eligible project costs, not the grant itself; Innovate UK funds a percentage of eligible costs.