OpenAI’s AI and Mental Health Grant Program 2026 (up to $2 million) – YOA

Deadline: December 19, 2025

Applications are open for the OpenAI’s AI and Mental Health Grant Program 2026. The grant seeks to fund analysis proposals that discover the intersection of AI and psychological well being. As AI turns into extra succesful and ubiquitous, they know that folks will more and more use it in additional private areas of their lives.

OpenAI continues to strengthen how their fashions acknowledge and reply to indicators of psychological and emotional misery. Working carefully with main consultants, they’ve skilled their fashions⁠ to reply extra appropriately throughout delicate conversations and have shared detailed updates for the way these enhancements are performing. While they’ve made significant progress on their very own fashions and interventions, this stays an rising space of analysis throughout the trade.

As part of a broader security investments, OpenAI is opening a name for analysis submissions to help unbiased researchers outdoors of OpenAI, serving to to spark new concepts, deepen understanding, and speed up innovation throughout the ecosystem. These grants are designed to help foundational work that strengthens each their very own security efforts, and the broader subject.

Grant

• They will award focused analysis grants with proposed budgets between $5,000 and $100,000, totaling up to $2 million.

Eligibility

• Applicant should be 18 or older;
• Affiliated with a analysis establishment or group, and/or important expertise with psychological well being;
• They are looking for to fund analysis moderately than for-revenue initiatives, so they won’t prioritize for revenue organizations right now.

Application

Submissions are open by way of December 19, 2025. A panel of inside researchers and consultants will assessment functions on a rolling foundation and notify chosen proposals on or earlier than January 15, 2026.

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For extra info, go to OpenAI’s AI and Mental Health Grant.