Mozilla Foundation Human-Scale

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Mozilla Foundation Human-Scale Compute

caveatemailno cardDwrite-gated

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Free tier	Quoted: 'Applicants to this cohort will be eligible to receive up to $500,000 USD in funding over three years - without giving up equity.' The base award, quoted: 'Selected projects will receive $300,000 USD and 12 months of intensive support beginning in April 2027', and the follow-on, quoted: 'Projects that demonstrate strong progress may be eligible for up to $200,000 USD in additional funding and two more years of bespoke support'. Deadline, quoted: 'The deadline to apply is Friday, November 20, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)'. Selection, quoted: 'Applications are reviewed through a multi-stage process. The primary review occurs at the Initial Project Proposal stage, with only a small number of shortlisted applicants invited to submit a full application.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated a multi-stage competitive review with a small shortlist decides the money, and the payment is a 12 month runway rather than a compute balance, so the award buys capacity only after it is won. source a multi-stage competitive review with a small shortlist decides the money, and the payment is a 12 month runway rather than a compute balance, so the award buys capacity only after it is won.
Binding	write-gated a multi-stage competitive review with a small shortlist decides the money, and the payment is a 12 month runway rather than a compute balance, so the award buys capacity only after it is won.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Cash with no equity and no spending restriction, so it composes with every compute record in the corpus: USD 300,000 at Lambda's documented on-demand rate of USD 3.99 per H100 GPU-hour (dossier/compute/lambda.json) is about 75,000 H100-hours.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The strongest live find, and the one caveat is a real gap rather than a guess: no page read today states whether an individual may apply, while all three anchor projects are organizations (Tiles Privacy Technologies, Family Intelligence Inc., the Distributed AI Research Institute). Two readings were considered: individual eligibility is implied by 'builders' and never excluded, or the review effectively requires a legal entity to receive USD 300,000. The route that would settle it is the full application form, which is gated behind the Initial Project Proposal stage, so it was not reachable today. The technical premise of the cohort also matters for a user: it funds work that uses less compute, not work that needs more.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-we-do/grantmaking/incubato	'Applicants to this cohort will be eligible to receive up to $500,000 USD in funding over three years - without giving up equity'; 'Selected projects will receive $300,000 USD and 12 months of intensive support beginning in April 2027'; 'up to $200,000 USD in additional funding and two more years'; 'The deadline to apply is Friday, November 20, 2026'; 'with only a small number of shortlisted applicants invited to submit a full application'; page 200
2026-10-22	www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-we-do/grantmaking/incubato	'It offers seven projects up to $500,000 each over three years. We fund, you build, and you keep ownership.'; 'This cohort is seeded with three teams'; 'Applications for the Human-Scale AI Incubator cohort are open now'; page 200

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated