Current Opportunities
Deep Partnerships
Request access to deeper collaborations directly with select partner resources.
Start-Up Projects resources
Request access to AI resources for start-up projects.
Research Resources
Access high-performance computing platforms tailored for AI research.
Educational Resources
Request access to educational platforms (such as computational notebooks).
Data, Models, and More
Browse curated datasets, pre-trained models, and additional tools for training and testing your AI systems.
Become a Volunteer Reviewer
The NAIRR Pilot relies on engaged volunteers to power the proposals review. Please apply if you're interested in contributing to this critical process.
Request a NAIRR Pilot Speaker
Are you organizing a conference, workshop, webinar, or campus event and want to include a presentation about the NAIRR Pilot? We welcome invitations to speak about the program and how it supports AI research and education across the United States.
Featured Projects
What's Happening
NSF establishes operations center for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource
September 1, 2026
The NSF announced today it is establishing an Operations Center (OC) for the NAIRR led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, in collaboration with the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Working closely with the agency, NSF NAIRR-OC will serve as the operational backbone of NAIRR.
Learn more at NSF.govNSF State & Regional Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs Webinar Series
August 18, 2026
The National Science Foundation has just announced the NSF State and Regional Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs Webinar series taking place August 26-September 4.
State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs
August 4, 2026
This new initiative will expand state and regional access to computing resources for researchers, students, and educators to help accelerate AI-enabled scientific discovery. Up to 10 AI Infrastructure Hubs will be founded to pool regional AI-related computing resources, and will be encouraged to integrate with the existing NAIRR program. To build a technical workforce highly skilled in scientific AI use, these infrastructure hubs will utilize partnerships with local and state governments, academic institutions, industry, and philanthropy.
New NSF initiative unlocks dataset value for AI-enabled scientific discovery
July 22, 2026
This new NSF investment aims to enable AI-driven scientific discovery and innovation in national priority areas by advancing community datasets. The program focuses on increasing the value of existing scientific datasets to enable AI-driven insights and research. Projects may pursue such aims as novel methods for feature extraction, metadata generation and dataset integration, and data pipeline construction for automated AI analysis. Researchers are encouraged to leverage existing resources, including those from NAIRR and NSF data platforms.
2026 NAIRR Annual Meeting Proceedings and Report
June 4, 2026
2026 NAIRR Annual Meeting Proceedings and Report now available:
Featured in Science: How NAIRR Resources are Helping Researchers Tackle the Copyright Challenge
April 28, 2026
When large language models memorize their training data — reproducing copyrighted text or personal information verbatim — it's a serious problem for AI developers and society alike. A team from the University of Southern California and the Max Planck Institute built an open-source tool called Hubble to study how and why this happens, and the NAIRR Pilot made it possible.
Leadership, Partners, and Contributors
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) leads the NAIRR Pilot effort in collaboration with federal agency partners. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are leading development of a NAIRR Secure element of the pilot.
The following federal agency partners are presently participating and contributing resources to the NAIRR Pilot:
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- NASA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- U.S. Department of War
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Current non-governmental partners:
- AI2: Allen Institute for AI
- AMD
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Anthropic
- Cerebras
- Databricks
- Datavant
- EleutherAI
- Groq
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
- Hugging Face
- IBM
- Intel
- Meta
- Microsoft
- MLCommons
- NVIDIA
- Omidyar Network
- OpenAI
- OpenMined
- Palantir
- Regenstrief Institute
- SambaNova Systems
- Vocareum
- Weights & Biases