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NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI: Cohort 6 applications open, close Nov 16

The NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI is accepting applications for Cohort 6, with fellows undertaking the fellowship 2 days a week for 12 months alongside their work or training, matched to existing clinical AI projects in the NHS. Salary cover is provided in the funded posts available to competitive applicants. This page is for NHS applicants only; international applicants have a separate page. Applications opened on 5 October 2026 and close at 23:45 GMT on 16 November 2026, for an 11 August 2027 start.

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Lacuna Fund dataset-use RFP: three awards of up to $10,000 for ML in the Global South

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), with the Wellcome Trust as funder, published a request for proposals to support researchers and research teams in training new ML models, scaling existing models, or supporting ML and AI applications or tools using datasets already created with support from Lacuna Fund. Available funding is up to USD 30,000 (three awards of up to USD 10,000 each) for researchers and research teams in Global South LMICs. The RFP opened 14th September 2026 and the submission deadline is 13th November 2026.

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Toyota Foundation 2026 Co-Creating New Society with Advanced Technologies grants

The program supports projects tackling social issues arising from rapid development of advanced technologies such as AI and IoT. Joint research grants are five to ten million yen per project and individual research grants are one to two million yen per project, for one to three years starting May 1, 2027. Proposals are accepted from September 10 to November 13, 2026, 15:00 Japan Standard Time. Application forms are only available in Japanese.

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Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy: Create AI Agents Championship, USD 750,000 in grants

The competition invites participants to build AI agents in four award categories: Best Societal Agent, Best Personal Agent, Best Business Agent and Best Youth AI Agent, with each category winner receiving a USD 150,000 grant to develop and grow their AI-agent solution and business. Open to all UAE residents and international startups interested in expanding into the region, with no entry fee; registration is open now.

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HIIG Impact AI Fellowship 2027: €5,000 stipend, apply by Jan 15, 2027

During the ten-week fellowship (16 August to 22 October 2027), fellows evaluate one specific AI use case using HIIG's Impact AI impact-assessment method. Fellows receive a fixed fellowship stipend of €5,000 per person for the ten-week period, and HIIG will financially support travel and accommodation costs needed for the in-person programme as far as its capacity allows. The deadline for applications is 15 January 2027.

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NSF plans Super Intelligence-Native Instruments funding line, up to $75M over five years

NSF will soon release a funding opportunity tied to the NSF Programmable Cloud Laboratories Network (NSF PCLNet), with a specific focus on the development of Super Intelligence-Native Instruments (SINI), and anticipates an investment of up to $75 million over the next five years.

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AWS Golden Age of Science Accelerator: up to $50M in cloud credits for AI-for-science research

On October 8, 2026, Amazon Web Services announced the AWS Golden Age of Science Accelerator, committing up to $50 million in credits over three years to support the White House's expansion of the Genesis Mission. The accelerator provides eligible participants up to $50 million in AWS cloud computing credits for scientific research and AI-for-science workloads across U.S. federal science agencies, their research partners and other participating federal agencies. Interested participants complete the interest form on the Government Accelerator Initiative Portal; AWS then schedules a consultation to develop project proposals, and credits for selected projects are applied to existing contracts.

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BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst Phase 1: share of £5M for UK SME AI deployments

UK SME AI leads can apply for a share of up to £5 million to deploy AI and machine learning solutions in decision-critical systems, with grant requests of £100k–£200k for 3–5 months across decision-critical systems, operational systems, and assurance/compliance strands. Applications open 21 October 2026 at 9:30am UK time and close 8 December 2026 at 11:00am UK time.

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NIH Childhood/AYA Cancer Data Innovation Challenge: $17M prizes, Milestone 1 due Nov 13

NIH's Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Data Innovation Challenge advertises $17,000,000 in total cash prizes across tracks for AI/ML-enabled cancer data tools. Institutions/entities are eligible; independent individuals are excluded. Milestone 1 is open until November 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.

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Canada AI Compute Challenge: up to CAD700M for domestic AI data centres

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's AI Compute Challenge expects federal investments of up to $700 million through a call for proposals to build and operate private-sector AI data centres in Canada, with a focus on serving Canadian AI developers. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis; priority goes to projects ready for near-term implementation. A secondary focus covers innovative and environmentally sustainable Canadian components such as AI chips, servers and networking.

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Google.org commits $5M over three years to Georgia Tech for AI-for-science access (initial $2.25M)

Georgia Tech announced it has received an initial $2.25 million for the first year of a program under a $5 million overall commitment from Google.org to expand access to AI for scientific discovery, with plans including supporting research projects and helping scientists across U.S. institutions use AI.

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NIH Digital Twins / Synthetic Data Population Modeling Grand Challenge: $1M prizes

NIH's Digital Twins and/or Synthetic Data Population Modeling for Whole-Person Health Grand Challenge offers $1,000,000 in total prizes for AI, synthetic data and digital twins work addressing chronic disease disparities. Registration is open until February 19, 2027.

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NIH Advance Whole-Person Data Integration Grand Challenge: $1M prizes

NIH's Advance Whole-Person Data Integration and Reimagine Data Science Computations and Analytics Grand Challenge offers $1,000,000 in total prizes for data integration, AI, synthetic data, digital twins and analytics addressing chronic disease disparities. The challenge is open until January 22, 2027.

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OpenMined Ensembles & Routing Winter 2026 research grant

OpenMined's current Ensembles & Routing (Winter 2026) research grant is a 12-week program for researchers mapping the quality-cost frontier for AI ensembles and routing. Grantees receive a $2,000 stipend and up to $5,000 USD in compute. Applications close October 23, 2026.

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NIH SPARK PubMed/PMC Challenge: $250,000 AI retrieval prizes

NIH's SPARK PubMed/PMC Challenge offers $250,000 in total prizes for AI retrieval work over PubMed and PMC. Registration is open until January 15, 2027, with U.S. eligibility rules for monetary awards.

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Anthropic commits $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission

Anthropic announced a commitment of $150 million over three years to the U.S. Genesis Mission, a federal initiative to accelerate scientific discovery, including Claude, Claude Code and API credits for several hundred Genesis Mission research projects, plus onboarding and technical support for scientists, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy.

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NIH SPARK dbGaP Challenge: $250,000 AI study-discovery prizes

NIH/NLM's Semantic Precision for AI Retrieval of Knowledge (SPARK) dbGaP Challenge offers $250,000 in total prizes across semantic normalization and conversational cohort discovery tasks. Code upload is open until January 15, 2027; monetary prizes require U.S. entity/citizen/permanent-resident eligibility.

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NIH It's About Time: $1M temporal reasoning in biomedical knowledge graphs challenge

NIH's It's About Time challenge funds temporal embeddings and reasoning in biomedical knowledge graphs, with total cash prizes of $1,000,000. Phase 1 runs October 5, 2026 to January 15, 2027, and U.S. prize eligibility restrictions apply.

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Correction: IVADO Postdoctoral Research Funding 2027 eligibility

IVADO's 2027 Postdoctoral Research Funding provides CAD 80,000 per year including benefits for two years, at one of five host universities. Applicants do not need Quebec residency, but the postdoctoral researcher must remain in Quebec for the entire funding period; IVADO gives priority among equally qualified candidates to candidates whose primary doctoral affiliation is outside Quebec, and national and international applicants are sought. Deadline: November 22, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.

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NVIDIA commits $250M in compute over five years to UK agentic safety and security research

NVIDIA announced a five-year compute donation valued at $250 million to strengthen the UK's agentic safety and security research capability, providing $50 million in compute access annually, with the majority supporting the wider UK AI safety and security research community and a proportion supporting work with the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab (BOLD), the Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab (SOFAIR) and Imperial College London.

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Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science names 17 recipients sharing $36M

Google.org announced on October 14, 2026 the 17 recipient organizations selected through the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science, which will receive a total of $36 million in funding. The open call drew applications across 30 countries in fields like climate, health and foundational science. Recipients can choose to join a six-month Google.org Accelerator with engineering support, technical mentorship and Google infrastructure.

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