Eligibility criteria
This competition is open to single applicants.
To lead a project, your organisation must be a UK-registered business of any size.
Your project must
• have total costs between £50,000 and £120,000
• last between 1 and 3 months
• carry out all of its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• start by 1 January 2026
• end by 31 March 2026
Additional information
This competition aims to demonstrate Proof of Concept of AI technologies with state-of-the-art performance in areas of strategic importance to the UK.
Your proposal must deliver one or more of the following
• Proof of Concept of architecture or subsystem component
• technical validation of the capability of the system or subsystem component
• frontier AI performance that delivers new to the world capability or state-of-the-art the performance of existing capability
• the ability of the architecture and business model to scale
• demonstrate a clear path for access to data
• demonstrate a strategy to access compute infrastructure and quantify the requirement for compute
Applications open on 11 August and close on 10 September 2025.
