Fellows & Grantees

Writing the first global history of gender.

Building Rue: The marketplace connecting emerging brands with event hosts.

Building Augrade - An AI/AR platform for creating, editing, and demonstrating 3D models at scale.

Making a documentary on his father's 7-hour swim for freedom, China to Hong Kong.

Crafting projects at the intersection of technology, art, and human interaction.

Documenting alternative childhood education schools.

Developing eco-friendly, cost-effective sanitary pads in Nigeria.

Building flexible, accessible, interactive foundational AI models for video and text.

An online marketplace connecting emerging brands with event hosts.

Developing a mobile app to measure vital signs and biomarkers from video.

Script: Enabling multilingual digital access to social welfare resources.

Script: Enabling multilingual digital access to social welfare resources.

Funding research, communication, and innovation in progress studies.

Advancing open-source quantum computing.

Cassette AI: Your co-pilot for music generation.

Launching the first cohort of the Brains accelerator for Spec Tech.

Continuing proof-of-concept tests for stealth technology.

Writing new songs and producing existing ones.

Developing adaptable battery systems for simplified renewable energy storage.

Developing single-dose, universal vaccines against emerging viruses.

Plant bioengineering for sustainability and recreation.

A documentary on our deepest theory of knowledge.

Designing a micro jet engine.

Developing a plasma nanoengineering reactor and neural-interfaced biomimetic eye.

Creating content on fundamental physics and technology, focusing on quantum and thermodynamics.

Building OpenQuantum: An open-source blueprint for trapping and controlling atoms.

Developing the world's most efficient, zero-carbon lithium extraction process.

Building a new paradigm for time-series analysis using quantum field theory.

Building a course to teach people how to become better readers.

N.E.R.D.: Diagnosing cancer using computer vision and ant behavior.

Providing alternative learning spaces for homeless youth in Nigeria.

Turning debating and discourse into a video game.

Writing a book on cosmological natural selection: the Darwinian evolution of universes.

Dui Pakhi: Modernizing the tailoring industry with doorstep services.

Simulating the brains of small organisms.

Empowering mothers and championing rights for children with disabilities in Zambia.

Promoting a greener earth through innovative, organic flower painting.

Foreage: A hyperspectral imaging system for detecting crop diseases.

Moonshot research: Simulating small brains and inducing infrared vision in mice.

Fostering public discourse on wisdom, agency, and humanity in the Technocene.

Possibilia: A literary magazine for optimistic, realistic sci-fi.

Optimizing retinal recordings to decode visual processing.

Developing a mobile app and resources for migrant workers' financial and digital literacy.

Creating serious and engaging content on the Great Books.

Creating an LLM agent capable of fluent Navajo communication.

Making music designed to last 1,000 years.

Developing an interdisciplinary research platform and growing the Theories of Everything podcast.

Nurfy: An AI-powered 'homeable' device for gamified microbiome monitoring and precision health.

Developing an affordable, DIY mechanical partial hand prosthetic kit.

Stealth projects: New updates for S³, documentary projects, and sci-fi films

Essay Architecture: An AI editor and framework for objective essay quality.

Developing 3D-printed magnets for faster, low-waste production.

Propelling technology for storing digital data within plants and organisms.

Building an expertise research resource and software for business leaders.

A micro-crowdfunding platform for ambitious young builders.

Clean Air K12: Improving school air quality with DIY air purifiers.

Organizing a conference on restarting Germany's nuclear plants.

Developing portable anti-recording technologies to protect conversations and identity.

Scaling AI 100x+ for AGI without exhausting resources, via novel algorithms.

Building an ecosystem of products for nervous system literacy and somatic awareness.

Nautilus: A free SF residency for young artists, scientists, and founders.

Developing self-replicating spacecraft to spread life and combat entropy.

Reconstructing dreams as immersive 3D scenes using AI from brainwave activity.

The Neighborhoods: A documentary archiving NYC neighborhoods visually and sonically.

An audio series that's more concept album than conversation.

A self-directed study exploring the frontier of materials, polymers, and chemistry.

Conducting early in-person interviews with great entrepreneurs.

A book uncovering how the atomic age engineered California's water scarcity.

Providing an alternative and inclusive learning space.

Perpetuo: The New Yorker for the Spanish-speaking world.

Revitalizing abandoned houses in rural Japan for creativity and well-being.

An AI-enabled tool supporting independent used bookstores.

A moonshot project: A nanodevice to connect a biological cell to the internet.

A media collective exploring utopian futures.

Nadhari: An AI research lab advancing frontier AI in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Creating a year-long public art journal documenting San Francisco's stories.

Building a founder community through a content engine fueled by unforgettable experiences.

Enhancing mind and body capabilities to better understand reality.

A multimedia dance-theater exploration in microgravity: movement meets science.

Applying neuroscience insights to accelerate learning at scale.

Building open-source, general-purpose robots for unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks.

Advocating for inclusive education and mainstream enrollment for children with disabilities.

Exploring genetic engineering to create novel designable flowers for art and education.

Researching sleepless mice.

A cognitive co-pilot for researchers: AI-generated, hallucination-free, cited wikis.

Expanding genome engineering tools, improving gene delivery, and profiling genome maintenance.

An alternative to college for ambitious inventors, founders, researchers, and storytellers.

Developing novel platforms for high-throughput drug discovery and development.