NAIRR Pilot Deep Partnerships Now Accepting Project Submissions
The NAIRR Pilot aims to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources needed to advance AI research and research that employs AI.
The NAIRR Pilot was formally launched in January 2024 by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) with a strong public-private consortium of 14 federal agencies and 26 industry and non-profit partners. Together, NAIRR Consortium members are contributing an extremely unique and heterogeneous array of the most advanced AI resources including high-performance and cloud computing, models, data resources, software licenses and other tools and capabilities for use by the U.S. research and education communities.
Through the NAIRR Pilot Deep Partnerships track Microsoft is offering up to $3.5M in Azure credits for research teams working on grand challenge AI for science problems in the areas of:
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Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development
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Accelerating the Discovery of Novel Materials
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Advancing chip design through trustworthy agentic systems
Submission Window: August 1 – September 15, 2025
*Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025*
Project Period: October 1, 2025 – June 15, 2026