This funding opportunity supports UK SMEs to experimentally validate novel AI mechanisms that underpin next-generation AI and machine learning systems. Projects should focus on new learning mechanisms, adaptive architectures, causal models, graph-native computations, or compositional representations. Funded projects must deliver prototype algorithms, validation environments, and evidence of technical advances within 1-3 months and budgets of £50,000 to £150,000.
Eligible applicants are UK-registered micro, small, or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the private sector. Projects must be conducted and exploited in the UK, last 1-3 months, and have total costs between £50,000 and £150,000. Subcontractors are not allowed, and only one application per organizat
