Unconventional Compute

Schmidt Sciences

Eligibility

  • Eligble PIs

Description

Schmidt Sciences seeks to fund research that can catalyze hardware fundamentally different from today’s CPU–GPU paradigm, and the training/inference methods co-designed to operate under the constraints imposed by such hardware: low numerical precision, device noise, drift, non-idealities etc. We are looking for proposals grounded in the creation of hardware that will solve specific, well-defined technological problems where conventional compute underperforms

Award Note

One-Time RFP

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Keywords:
Computing, computer science, hardware, pilot, hardware development, AI, physics, chemistry, optics,

Application due:
04/30/26

Award amount:
$50,000 - $750,000