CATALYST GRANT PROGRAM
Build real-world impact with AI
Cohere Labs’ Catalyst Grants enable academic partners, civic and public impact organizations to access Cohere's models through the Cohere API.
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NEXT DEADLINE:
Applications are considered on a rolling basis
ELIGIBILITY:
Projects must be for public benefit or open science research
FOCUS:
Education, healthcare, climate change, sustainability
Creating real-world impact with AI requires powerful resources and frontier AI models are often out of reach for researchers and innovators. Our Catalyst Grants program removes these barriers and empowers real-world impact via AI advancements.
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Drive real-world change through AI and research
- Learning should adapt to every student, in every language, everywhere. We back projects exploring how AI can unlock new educational possibilities, breaking barriers and creating pathways to knowledge that never existed before.
- AI can transform how we understand health, deliver care, and save lives. We support researchers and innovators making healthcare more accessible, equitable, and effective, opening new possibilities for communities everywhere.
- The world's languages, stories, and traditions deserve to shape the future of AI. We fund work ensuring diverse cultures aren't just represented but become active participants in building tomorrow's technologies.
- Our planet's challenges demand bold solutions. We support innovators using AI to reimagine how we protect ecosystems, manage resources, and build a sustainable future.
Previous projects by grantees
- Education
- Human feedback
- Community
Building LLM tools for teachers
Jussi Jauhiainen and Agustín Garagorry, University of Turku, Finland
Millions of students worldwide struggle with one-size-fits-all education, while teachers lack evidence-based AI tools for personalization. Jussi, Agustín, and their team are transforming education by using LLMs to create personalized learning materials. Their research on LLM-powered student evaluation provides educators with evidence on effective tools, risks, and informed decision-making.
Starting in Finnish schools, they're expanding to English, Spanish, and African languages through partnerships.
Frequently asked questions
- Language model safety, including bias, explainability, hallucinations, toxicity, and adversarial testing
- Language model applications for prosocial goals in fields such as education, climate science, content moderation, healthcare, law, history, and social science
- Language model capabilities, such as improving information retrieval accuracy or model efficiency
- Multilingual capabilities, such as increasing language model performance and safety in languages beyond English
- Values alignment exploring how to ensure generative AI model behavior meets people’s expectations, preferences and values
- Often, we receive the question of how should the grants be acknowledged. If you choose or want to acknowledge the grant program, we have drafted a simple message below that you are welcome to use and adapt.“This work was supported by compute credits from a Cohere Labs Research Grant, these grants are designed to support academic partners conducting research with the goal of releasing scientific artifacts and data for good projects.”
- We often get asked about the process for sharing experiment results with us before paper publication. Generally, we do not require an approval process for research findings, except in cases involving AI safety or responsible AI. However, we welcome an update about what research you did with the grants as we hope to spotlight some of the research contributions that come out of the program.If your work pertains to AI safety, you are expected to unconditionally and immediately disclose any vulnerabilities found through your research and testing, by notifying safety@cohere.ai and sharing any research outputs (papers, datasets etc.) at least 4 weeks before publication by notifying labs@cohere.com
- If you use all of the credits provided for your project and would like to request additional funds, we encourage you to reach out via email to brittawnya@cohere.com
- You can monitor the balance of your grant via the Billing tab of your Cohere dashboard. Your grant credit will be applied to any usage of our models with a Production API key. If you have not already done so, you can create a Production API key in the API Key tab of your dashboard.
- Yes - to invite and manage teammates and collaborators, please visit the Team tab of your dashboard. Collaborators can include anyone that benefits from the grant credit, regardless of them being within your institution.
