The RAAIS Foundation Grants

We believe that the real-world impact of AI research should extend well beyond purely for-profit applications.

The RAAIS Foundation awards financial grants to support open-source AI research and projects worldwide, selected for their potential to advance education, research, and the common good.

Each grant supports a defined three-month project, and awards are made on a rolling basis throughout the year.

We particularly aim to empower communities and individuals who might not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in advancing AI and its responsible applications.

grant recipients

Open Climate Fix is a newly established non-profit research and development organisation entirely focused on using open-science to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at scale. The organisation is led by Jack Kelly, formerly of DeepMind, and Dan Travers. It operates an open and collaborative approach to engage domain experts, researchers and volunteers to collectively find scalable and practical solutions to climate change.

OpenMined is an open-source community focused on researching, developing, and promoting tools for secure, privacy-preserving, value-aligned artificial intelligence. The organisation is led by Andrew Trask. We have created several RAAIS OpenMined Scholarships to fund full-time work on the OpenMined codebase to deliver open-source projects commissioned by United Nations, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and the University of Oxford.

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