Initiatives

The AI for Math Fund seeks to advance the pace and impact of math discovery by supporting projects that are important for the field, but no one academic or industry lab has the incentive to do them. The fund will support projects that (1) are less likely to happen in a business as usual scenario; and (2) have the potential to advance the field as a whole. These include: developing open-source, production-quality tools; increasing the size, diversity and quality of datasets required for training AI models; and increasing the ease-of-use of tools so that they are adopted by mathematicians.

The AI and Education program coordinates ambitious R&D aimed at increasing the rate of learning in key areas like middle school math. Despite the substantial interest in the use of AI to widen educational opportunities, there are very few ambitious R&D efforts to leverage advances in computer science and learning science to create an “AlphaFold moment” in education.

The Talent Mobility Fund increases the use of existing but underused immigration pathways through a multi-track expert-led grants program. While legal barriers often limit the ability of talent to move to opportunity, there is a wide range of pathways in the U.S. and globally like the O-1, EU student visa, and Japan’s Specified Skilled Worker visa, which are underutilized relative to their potential.

BiTS supports the development and launch of more coordinated research programs. The program recruits early to mid-career research talent with big-if-true ideas that are neither a fit for venture nor for academia, helps them develop into program leaders with actionable research visions, and matches them to a host institution like ARIA, ARPA-E, ARPA-H, DARPA, or a similar non-governmental organizations like Convergent Research.

The UK Horizons Programme seeks to supercharge the UK’s R&D ecosystem by building networks of innovators, expanding the diversity of science translation mechanisms in the UK, strengthening the UK’s philanthropic ecosystem, and building research translation strategies. 

The Alliance of Talent Leaders Across Science (ATLAS) seeks to identify, support, and connect leaders who are cultivating technical and scientific communities across the UK.

The Higgs Community seeks to be home to the most exceptional scientists and innovators in the UK, interested in turning ambitious science into real-world impact.

The Public Benefit Innovation Fund is a philanthropic venture fund and R&D lab which is supported by Renaissance Philanthropy. PBIF provides seed funding and technical support for researchers, nonprofits, academic labs, startups, and technologists working to improve social service delivery.