Unconventional AI(@unconvAI):We’re introducing the Unconventional Grant. A new research grant program supporting bold, unconventional ideas in AI. We’re allocating $500,000 in total funding, awarding up to five $100,000 grants to researchers exploring new paradigms in efficient, scalable, and biologically inspired AI systems. We’re especially interested in ideas that challenge how AI systems are built today, from unconventional circuits and architectures to new approaches in neural networks and theory. Not incremental work. Not safe bets. Ideas that push the field forward.

2026.04.07 16:26

We’re introducing the Unconventional Grant. A new research grant program supporting bold, unconventional ideas in AI. We’re allocating $500,000 in total funding, awarding up to five $100,000 grants to researchers exploring new paradigms in efficient, scalable, and biologically inspired AI systems. We’re especially interested in ideas that challenge how AI systems are built today, from unconventional circuits and architectures to new approaches in neural networks and theory. Not incremental work. Not safe bets. Ideas that push the field forward.