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AWS AI: Agentic AI

Amazon Research Awards

UM Funding ID
FD03927
Sponsor
Amazon Research Awards
Category
International
Description

AWS AI aims to advance agentic AI research by funding development of open-source tools and research that benefit the AI community at large, or impactful research related to agents.

We welcome proposals related to agentic AI in the areas below:

  1. Retrieval across structured and unstructured data
  2. Tool/API calling over long horizons
  3. Human interfaces, such as computer use, when programmatic APIs don’t exist
  4. Self analyzing/reflecting, catching mistakes, backtracking, new path finding capabilities
  5. Reward models, programmatic and learned verifiers
  6. Automated reasoning and neuro-symbolic techniques for output synthesis and verification
  7. Safety and responsible AI for agentic behavior
  8. Automated feedback loops for agents to improve
  9. Multi-agent collaborations
  10. Protocols for interfacing with data sources, tools/APIs, and other agents
  11. Application domains, including but not limited to, software engineering, enterprise, healthcare & life sciences, finance, media & entertainment, consumer agentic assistants

Up to $120,000 USD

VPRI Contact
Michelina Violi
Research Grants Specialist (Health & International)Michelina [dot] .Violi [at] @umanitoba [dot] .ca

Deadlines

UM Internal DeadlineSponsor Deadline

 

Application

09-Apr-2025

4:30 pm CST

30-Apr-2025

11:59 pm PST

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