Announcing the 2026 Unconventional Grant Winners
Unconventional AI2026-09-10T08:30:31-07:00Nearly 100 submissions, five projects, $100,000 each. Meet the first cohort of the Unconventional Grant, at Stanford, UT Austin, Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
Unconventional Grant: Final Call for Proposals
Jess Rosenthal2026-08-13T09:08:03-07:00Why scaling alone will not solve AI efficiency and how the Unconventional Grant is supporting new computational paradigms across hardware, systems, neural architectures, and theory.
Introducing Unconventional AI
Naveen Rao, MeeLan Lee, Michael Carbin, Sara Achour2026-08-13T09:08:42-07:00Introducing Unconventional AI. We are building a new physical substrate for intelligence to achieve biology-scale energy efficiency and solve the AI energy bottleneck.