Fellowships

What it is

A fellowship is for independent researchers who want time, money, and compute to dig into one well-scoped research thread. You stay where you are. You keep your IP. You publish under your own name.

It is not a PhD substitute, an internship, or a job. It's a focused stretch of work, with the friction of compute, rent, and conference travel removed.

What you get

• $30,000 stipend annualised, paid monthly
• $25,000 in compute credit on the alphabell cluster + cloud passthrough
• One mentor drawn from L8+ active members, paired by topic, meets monthly
• Cohort access — weekly seminars, dedicated Discord, retreats at months 4 and 10
• Travel budget up to $3,500 / year for conferences, retreats, or visiting members
• Editorial support for writing up your work (we ship copy-editors, not co-authors)

What we ask

• Publish at least one piece of work in the year — paper, dataset, tool, audit, or substantial open-source release
• Co-host one alphabell event during the year (a competition, hackathon, or reading group)
• One short monthly update on the cohort Discord
• Open-source by default; if your output is best closed, we want to hear why up front

Who's a fit

Independent researchers, data scientists between jobs, late-stage PhD candidates, hackers with a research project they can't get to in their day job, and people in countries with no AI research scene of their own. Working scientists at frontier labs are not eligible — they have the resources already.

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