Foresight Institute offers up to $100K grants for local AI compute projects
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-12
Foresight Institute launched a new RFP, Call 1: Local Compute, funding work that makes local compute easier to own, run, and scale as open, resilient, distributed AI infrastructure. Typical grants are up to $100,000, plus office space, community, and private compute at its AI Nodes in San Francisco and Berlin.
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