AWS Agentic AI call for proposals - Fall 2026
AWS Agentic AI call for proposals - Fall 2026 supports researchers developing agentic AI and open-source tools to advance human-AI collaboration, scientific discovery, and benefits for the wider AI community.
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Funder: Amazon Research Awards
Due Dates: October 1, 2026 (Submissions open) | November 4, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific Time (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: One-time gifts: unrestricted funds 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 benefiting the wider AI community.
Key Information: Each PI may submit only one proposal across the ARA Program per call period.
Description
AWS funds this call through Amazon Research Awards (ARA) to advance agentic AI research and open-source tools for the wider AI community. Priorities include no-code and low-code agent deployment at scale, productivity applications for human-AI collaboration, secure multi-agent systems, and agents that accelerate scientific discovery in health and life sciences, chemistry, materials science, and physics. The call also seeks scalable verification of agent trajectories and agent customization through post-training or optimization of prompts, tools, specifications, and steering files.
Other welcome topics include safety and responsible agent behavior, data integration and retrieval, and enterprise-scale operations and governance. Application areas include software engineering, enterprise, healthcare, finance, media and entertainment, and consumer assistants. Proposals addressing theory, practice, and novel techniques are welcome.
