Principia Compute Grants

Principia Compute Grants support researchers and engineers working on AI for mathematical reasoning. Grants are awarded in compute credits.

What we fund

Research within the Principia program: pretraining and scaling science, pretraining data, efficient attention and model architectures, agentic systems, mechanistic interpretability of AI reasoning, and reinforcement learning for verifiable domains. Math and physics PhDs crossing into AI are welcome, as are open-source projects on AI for mathematics.

Who we fund

PhD candidates, postdocs, advanced undergraduates, and researchers with equivalent standing. Grants are typically USD 1,000–10,000.

What we ask

• Acknowledge Principia in resulting publications.
• Share your project publicly when it lands.
• Send a short update at three months, and a final writeup when the project ends.

Researchers retain full IP and publication rights.

How to apply

Email grants@principialabs.org and include:

• A one-page research proposal: the question, your approach, what you'd do with the compute.
• Your CV, Google Scholar, or whatever best represents your work.

We review applications on a rolling basis and respond within two weeks.

Researchers interested in joining Principia may also want to learn about our Research Fellowship.