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Announcing the 2026 Unconventional Grant Winners

Unconventional AI announced the first cohort of its 2026 Unconventional Grant, awarding $100,000 each to five projects selected from nearly 100 submissions. The winning projects are based at Stanford, UT Austin, Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

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Nearly 100 submissions, five projects, $100,000 each. Meet the first cohort of the Unconventional Grant, at Stanford, UT Austin, Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

The post Announcing the 2026 Unconventional Grant Winners appeared first on Unconventional AI.

source & further reading
unconv.ai — original article Less is More: Scaling Dynamics with Sparsity Smoothing the Triangle: Rethinking the Memory Stack for Unconventional AI Speaking the Language of Physics: Introducing the First Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) for Dynamical System Hardware
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