AWS Agentic AI call for proposals - Fall 2026
AWS Agentic AI call for proposals - Fall 2026 supports researchers developing open-source tools and agentic AI research to advance AI agents and benefit the wider research community.
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Funder: Amazon Research Awards
Due Dates: November 4, 2026, 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (Submission)
Funding Amounts: One-time gifts: cash no more than $70,000 USD on average, plus AWS credits no more than $50,000 USD on average
Summary: Supports open-source tools and impactful agentic AI research that advances AI agents and benefits the wider research community.
Key Information: Each principal investigator may submit only one proposal per ARA call period.
Description
AWS funds this call through Amazon Research Awards (ARA) to advance agentic AI through open-source tools and research benefiting the AI community, or other impactful research related to agents. Priorities include no-code and low-code deployment and management at scale, human–AI productivity applications, secure multi-agent collaboration, and scientific discovery in health and life sciences, chemistry, materials science, and physics.
The call also seeks scalable verification of agent trajectories to reduce human intervention, and agent customization through model post-training or optimization of prompts, tools, specifications, and steering files. Other welcome topics include responsible agent behavior, data integration and retrieval, and enterprise-scale operations and governance. Application domains include software engineering, enterprise, healthcare, finance, media and entertainment, and consumer assistants.
