{"attachments":[],"project":{"id":"911a8914-cce2-42ab-92c6-d8b4e3e7eb8b","title":"AI open access call","title_normalized":"aiopenaccesscall","sponsor":"UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)","agency":"UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)","kind":"grant","taxonomy":["資訊通訊與AI","淨零與能源"],"region":"英國","deadline":"2026-07-17T00:00:00Z","starts_at":"2026-08-24T00:00:00Z","announced_at":null,"budget":"up to 8,000,000 GPU hours on the Isambard-AI service","eligibility":"1. Project lead must have a contract longer than the proposed project or a substantial relationship with the organisation; academic leads must be at lecturer level or equivalent.\n2. Organisation must be either a UK registered business (any size) with a Companies House number, a research organisation eligible for UKRI funding, a charity, or a not-for-profit.\n3. There is no limit on the number of applications from any one organisation.\n4. Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) applicants may apply via either the Sovereign AI compute offer or this AI open access call, but not both.\n5. Applicants can request between 50,000 and 1,400,000 GPU hours on the Isambard‑AI supercomputer for a six‑ or twelve‑month project.\n6. Successful projects must comply with the Subsidy Control Act 2022 and relevant State aid rules.\n7. Non‑academic organisations must state all eligible project costs; academic organisations are not required to provide this information.\n8. Support ratios limit the awarded compute to a percentage of eligible project costs (up to 70% for micro/small organisations in feasibility/industrial research, up to 60% for medium organisations; up to 45%/35% for experimental development).","summary":"This UKRI AI open access call provides eligible UK researchers and developers with access to GPU compute on the Isambard‑AI supercomputer (50 k–1.4 M hours per project, six‑ or twelve‑month tenure) for fundamental research, feasibility studies, industrial research or experimental development in AI‑for‑Science priority areas, with no direct funding but subject to subsidy‑control compliance.","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-research-resource/ai-open-access-call","url_status":"ok","url_checked_at":"2026-09-08T00:55:06.812188+02:00","source_id":null,"snapshot_id":"d8ca3bac-5ea8-48f0-ae06-020606080c8e","spec_id":null,"lifecycle":"open","first_seen_at":"2026-08-29T21:45:29.777066+02:00","last_verified_at":"2026-08-29T21:45:29.817552+02:00","created_at":"2026-08-29T21:45:29.780921+02:00","updated_at":"2026-09-08T00:55:06.816057+02:00"}}