Credits & computeClosed
NAIRR Pilot (National AI Research Resource)
US National Science Foundation (with Microsoft, NVIDIA)
A US federal pilot giving qualifying researchers – including nonprofit and public-interest researchers – access to a shared catalog of AI compute, models, and datasets. The pilot phase concluded in January 2026; NSF has now stood up the permanent NAIRR Operations Center — led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (UC San Diego) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (UT Austin), on an award of up to $35M over five years. Watch for the successor program's first access calls.
- Status: Pilot concluded January 2026 — watch for the permanent NAIRR successor
- Amount / value: In-kind compute + data
- Geography: US only
- Focus: Cross-cutting
- Eligibility: US researchers at universities, nonprofits, agencies
- Last verified: Aug 22, 2026
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