AWS Agentic AI call for proposals - Fall 2026

Supports agentic AI research and open-source tools, including multi-agent collaboration, scientific discovery, autonomous trajectory verification, and customization through post-training or optimization of prompts, tools and agent scaffolding. Research may address safe agent behavior, data integration, enterprise operation and human–AI collaboration. Submit a scientific proposal using the ARA template, encouraged to be no more than four pages excluding appendices. Decisions are expected in February 2027.

Applications close on 4 November 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

Full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution or permanent researchers at a legally recognised non-governmental nonprofit. One primary-PI proposal per call period; co-PIs must also qualify. Amazon employment/contracting in the previous 12 months, specified household conflicts and Amazon cloud-procurement authority disqualify applicants. Government employees are excluded except university employees. Applicants must meet age-of-majority and programme rules.