Free AI compute, found and checked. Who qualifies and the catch, up front.
API credits, free inference tiers, startup programs and research grants from the frontier labs and the long tail. Every offer is checked against the provider’s own page: value, eligibility, limits, deadline, fine print.
VC-backed startups building on Gemini can get up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits over two years.
For: Startups that raised Pre-Seed/Seed within 5 years (or Series A within 12 months), founded within 5 years, built on Gemini, with under $5,000 in prior Google Cloud credits
Open Kaggle competitions (ARC-AGI-2 and ARC-AGI-3) plus a paper prize, with $2M in prizes and submissions due Nov 2, 2026.
Anyone with a Kaggle account
Ends 2 Nov
Catch: Winning solutions typically must be open-sourced, and notebooks run under Kaggle's compute limits. Kaggle deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the stated day. Check prize rules per track.