closeAI Foundation
Advancing AI for the benefit of humanity.
The closeAI Foundation supports open academic research, educational accessibility, and community grants to ensure frontier intelligence elevates society.
Global Academic Grants
Providing compute credits, model API access, and mentoring grants to university researchers, doctoral fellows, and STEM non-profits globally.
Public Interest & Healthcare AI
Supporting open-source research in genomic analysis, epidemiology, disaster relief modeling, and accessibility technologies.
Open Model Weights & Benchmarks
Releasing open-weight baseline models, evaluation harnesses, and synthetic research datasets for public academic inquiry.
Apply for funding and mentorship
Researchers and educational institutions can apply for subsidized API access and direct engineering mentorship.
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