{"id":688,"date":"2022-09-06T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/startups\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-06-24T20:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:52:33","slug":"ai-grant-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/startups\/blog\/ai-grant-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft for Startups working with AI Grant to support AI-first startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recent breakthroughs in large models are changing the way we relate to unimaginably large datasets. But the models are not products. There is a tremendous opportunity for founders who understand what these models can do to build products that will redefine how we work and live. We have seen this firsthand with GitHub Copilot. In files where Copilot is enabled, up to 40% of the code in those files are being suggested by Copilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub is already supporting AI-first startups<\/a> and providing members with access to OpenAI and its groundbreaking GPT-3 model<\/a>. Today we are thrilled to announce that we are taking this further by working with AI Grant to support \u201cbreakthrough products that will be AI-first, built by entrepreneurs who understand both what the latest AI models can do, and what people actually want to use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI Grant is funded by Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub<\/a>, and Daniel Gross, an early investor in Stripe, Coinbase, Figma, and others<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applications are open now for the AI Grant program<\/a> and will remain open until October 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If yours is one of the selected for the program, you will receive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n