Notable recent
$152M Ai2 OMAI partnership announced Aug 2025 (with NVIDIA matching), the first major US public funding to cross into open foundation-model training at scale.
Documented grants (1)
- Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure (OMAI) partnership 2025-08 · $152M (NSF $75M + NVIDIA $77M)
Recipient: Allen Institute for AI
First major US public funding crossing into open foundation-model training at scale. Compute infrastructure plus open data plus OLMo lineage.
Process
Federal RFP; consortium-based often; competitive.
Cadence
Annual + per-program RFPs