The MIT Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD) is continuing our strategic Seed Fund initiative. The Seed Fund is one part of a strategic effort supporting infrastructure for applied AI/ML research, creating a powerful AI/ML platform for all of MIT.
The deadline for this round of seed fund proposals is March 4, 2026. In this funding round, ORCD is planning to support around 6 project opportunities for one semester of graduate student funding (Fall 2026) and 3-6 months of enhanced compute resources.
Ideal projects will be interested both in advancing their own domain research and in contributing to growing an ecosystem of openly shared applied AI/ML software and tool knowledge. Projects, from all areas of MIT, for which access to GPU resources and knowledge will enable more rapid completion of some key goals, are of particular interest.
See our Seed Fund page on our website for more details and application instructions.
If you have questions, please send an email to orcd-help@mit.edu.