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Project Criteria

We are interested in funding any and all projects that use AI. The projects can be open or closed source, product or research-focused and built using any infrastructure. Previous grants that the community has voted to award have included:

  • AI apps (e.g. web apps, Gradio/Streamlit/HuggingFace apps, plugins)
  • AI workflows and assistants (e.g. notebooks, LangChain scripts, prompt engineering)
  • AI models (e.g. fine-tuning on new data)
  • early-stage AI startups
  • AI research (e.g. towards academic publications or conference papers)
  • open source AI software
  • projects building AI x Web3 infrastructure
  • mechanism design for AI apps and systems (e.g. simulations for distributing value generated by AI)
  • AI courses
  • Outreach to AI communities or consumers

For more inspiration on project ideas, you can check out:

  • Previous proposals on our forum
  • List of existing products and ideas for new use cases (from interviews) on The AI Exchange
  • Weekly roundups by AI Pub on Twitter
  • Regular posts by AI FunHouse on Twitter

Also feel free to brainstorm with the community (and core team) in the #grants channel of our Discord.

We're very grateful to Ocean Protocol Foundation for sponsoring Algovera Grants.