Compute Grants & Calls for Collaboration

The objective is to pool resources across leading academic institutions. To facilitate research on frontier AI foundation models, we are holding regular calls that are also open to researchers in Europe and beyond. For 2026, the 10-20 million GPU hours should be distributed. The large compute call – targeted at projects requesting more than 500k GPU hours – is held twice a year. Applications for small compute grants are continuously accepted. 

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Proposal deadlines & more information

• Open call for small projects (~50k GPU hours), rolling reviews

  • ​Instructions for small project submission here

  • For any questions or clarifications related to small projects, contact small-grants@swiss-ai.org. 

• Open call for large projects (>500k GPU hours), twice per year*

  • ​Instructions for large project submission here​

  • *Large calls will run twice per year, once in March and once in August, subject to small shifts in exact dates.​​

  • For any questions or clarifications related to large projects, contact large-grants@swiss-ai.org.