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Emergent Ventures (Mercatus Center)

Tyler Cowen's discretionary grant program at George Mason University's Mercatus Center; funds individuals working on under-supplied ideas including AI tools, AI policy, and AI for science.

Notable recent

AI-tagged 2025 grants include 'open source math for the AIs' (Reyansh Sharma), privacy-preserving ML (Jessie Chen), 'data for the AIs' (Laura Ryan).

Documented grants (3)

Data for the AIs 2025-12-01 · $1K-$50K range

Recipient: Laura Ryan

Building open data resources for AI training. 50th cohort Emergent Ventures award.

Data
Open source math for the AIs 2025-09-01 · $1K-$50K range

Recipient: Reyansh Sharma

Building open-source mathematical training data and evaluation sets for use by language models. 46th cohort Emergent Ventures award.

Data Training
Privacy-preserving ML on encrypted data 2025-09-01 · $1K-$50K range

Recipient: Jessie Chen

Privacy-preserving machine-learning models that operate directly on encrypted data without exposing the underlying inputs. 46th cohort Emergent Ventures award.

Identity and Trust Training

Process

Single-page application; Cowen as sole gatekeeper.

Cadence

Rolling

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