Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Economics of AI

The role

Mercor is seeking to fund AI research on the economic impacts of AI. The grant supports researcher hours, API costs, expert time, and stipends for event and conference attendance.

What you will do

• Publish a paper, an open dataset, a public methodology, or a tool released under an open license that permits commercial use
• Provide a brief Expression of Interest including research question, project proposal, novelty, risks, team, outcomes, and budget

Required qualifications

• Researchers at universities and non-profit research organizations, or public benefit corporations and small startups (< 20 people) that do not sell AI training data
• Applicants must be based in the United States or the United Kingdom
• Grantees must sign Mercor’s research award agreement
• Awards are subject to tax documentation, sanctions screening, and periodic progress reports

Nice to have

• Experience with agentic evaluation, RL environments, and post-training

About the company

Mercor builds infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.