Research award
AWS Agentic AI call for proposals - Fall 2026
Amazon Research Awards
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About
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.
Topics
- agentic AI, search World Wide
- open-source tools, search World Wide
- multi-agent collaboration, search World Wide
- scientific discovery, search World Wide
- autonomous trajectory verification, search World Wide
- post-training, search World Wide
- agent scaffolding, search World Wide
- human–AI collaboration, search World Wide
Eligibility
Covers: Published averages are no more than USD 70,000 in unrestricted funds and USD 50,000 in AWS credits; these are averages, not individual award caps. One-time institutional gift; proposed budgets exclude administrative overhead.
Researchers worldwide may apply, subject to US sanctions/export rules. The programme excludes Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk, and other prohibited jurisdictions.
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.
Source: amazon.science