Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Economics of AI

📋 Description

• Applicants are grouped into three budget tiers (Tier 1: under $50,000; Tier 2: under $200,000; Tier
• The grant supports: time of experts from Mercor's platform, researcher hours, API costs, and
• Research focuses on measuring AI's impact on labor, human-AI collaboration and productivity, and
• Applicants must be researchers at universities, non-profit research organizations, public benefit
• Applicants must be based in the United States or the United Kingdom.
• Grantees are expected to publish a paper, open dataset, public methodology, or tool under an open

🎯 Requirements

• Researchers at universities and non-profit research organizations, as well as public benefit
• Applicants must be based in the United States or the United Kingdom.
• Researchers with experience with agentic evaluation, RL environments, and post-training are
• Submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) of 1–3 pages including: research question and background
• Strong EOIs are specific, name methods/systems/evaluation criteria, and engage with existing
• Proposals should not duplicate work already pursued by many other groups unless clearly

🎁 Benefits

• Funding for AI research on economic impacts, with grants up to $500,000.
• Support for expert time, researcher hours, API costs, and conference attendance stipends.
• Grantees keep ownership of their work and may publish findings.
• Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.