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AI Opportunities in India

AI opportunities based in or specifically open to applicants in India — one of this catalog's deepest regional verticals, covering government and private grants, university fellowships, and remote-friendly fractional roles, alongside Global-region listings that India-based applicants are also eligible for.

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Fellowship

Anthropic Fellows Program — AI Safety Research

💡 $3,850/week stipend + ~$15k/month in compute funding for AI safety research, mentored directly by Anthropic researchers.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Available to work full-time with authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Strong technical background in CS, math, or physics.
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Grant

Coefficient Giving / Open Philanthropy Career Development & Transition Funding

💡 Rolling grant support for people moving into AI safety or AI governance careers.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤People at any career stage pursuing work related to AI safety, AI governance, biosecurity, or global catastrophic risk reduction.
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Coefficient Giving — Transformative AI Capacity-Building Funding

💡 Good fit for AI safety community-building, talent pipeline, or research-infrastructure projects.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Projects that build talent pipelines, research infrastructure, networks, events, or public discourse around risks from transformative AI.
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Internship

HENNGE Global Internship Program

💡 Global fully-funded tech internship in Tokyo covering flights, stipend, and support.

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🌍Global (On-site Tokyo; rolling/future slots)
👤Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD students and recent graduates worldwide. English fluency required; no Japanese required.
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Course

Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning for Coders

💡 Free, credible, self-paced deep learning course for builders.

🟢 Free
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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Anyone with coding experience who wants practical deep learning and ML training. Free and self-paced.
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Internship

Founder's Office (GTM & Ops) Intern — SuperBryn AI

💡 Paid Founder's Office seat at a voice-AI infrastructure startup — direct exposure to GTM and ops at an early-stage company.

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🌍India
👤Open to students/early-career candidates able to work on-site in HSR Layout, Bengaluru. No specific degree restriction stated.
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Internship

Cohere Research Internship

💡 Hands-on LLM research at a leading enterprise AI lab, with openings across safety, RAG, and finetuning tracks.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Currently pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, or related discipline. Exceptional non-PhD candidates also considered. Work authorization required (no sponsorship).
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Internship

Operations Intern (On-Device AI) — Sarvam AI

💡 Operations seat inside one of India's most prominent sovereign AI companies, backed by Lightspeed and Peak XV.

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🌍India
👤Open to students able to work in Bengaluru. Analytical background helpful (SQL, Excel, dashboarding tools).
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Fellowship

Navigators Incubator — AI Security

💡 Up to $50k in project funding plus salary to develop your own AI security project under expert mentorship.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Individuals or small teams interested in leading projects to address AI security and catastrophic risk problems. Multiple hub locations or fully remote.
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Course

Agentic AI — DeepLearning.AI

💡 Learn agentic AI design patterns straight from Andrew Ng — free to audit, small fee for the certificate.

🔵 Paid
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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Software developers who want to apply AI techniques to build autonomous, multi-step systems. No prior agentic AI experience needed.
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Course

Google AI Essentials

💡 Beginner-friendly AI fluency course from Google, completed in under 5 hours.

🔵 Paid
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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Anyone, no technical experience required. Self-paced, under 5 hours.
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Course

Applied AI, ML & Decision Science Programme — IIT Delhi

💡 IIT Delhi faculty-led AI + decision science credential, with an optional on-campus immersion day.

🔵 Paid
📅Sep 19, 2026 (54d left)
🌍India
👤Early-career professionals to experienced managers across technology, analytics, business, and engineering backgrounds.
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Course

SOAR — Skilling for AI Readiness

💡 Completely free, government-backed AI literacy courses with nationally recognized certificates.

🟢 Free
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🌍India
👤Anyone above 16 with a minimum 10th-pass qualification; school students (classes 6-12), educators, college freshers, and professionals across India.
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Course

AI Agents in LangGraph — DeepLearning.AI

💡 Learn graph-based, highly controllable AI agents directly from LangChain's founder.

🟢 Free
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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Intermediate Python knowledge required. For developers wanting controllable, graph-based AI agents.
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Course

Google AI Professional Certificate

💡 Google's official applied-AI-at-work credential, plus 3 months of Google AI Pro included.

🔵 Paid
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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Anyone wanting to go beyond AI basics to applied, work-ready AI fluency. No technical background required.
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Generative AI for Educators with Gemini — Google

💡 Free AI training built specifically for teachers, with PD-credit-eligible certification.

🟢 Free
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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Middle and high school educators of any subject. No technical experience required.
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Grant

ASIF Ignite — Africa Cohort 1 (Climate + Agri AI)

💡 First-ever cohort of a climate-and-agri-focused African accelerator — genuinely hard to find before it builds a track record.

📅Aug 17, 2026 (21d left)
🌍Global (Remote)
👤Early-stage founders across Africa with a working prototype in climate adaptation or food/agriculture, not yet extensively validated with users.
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IndiaAI Startups Global — International Acceleration Program (Cohort 2)

💡 Indian government-run bridge program into the European startup ecosystem — cohort 1 already produced €42M in raises and 5 French entity registrations.

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🌍India
👤High-potential Indian AI startups seeking to expand into global (specifically European) markets, run by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under the IndiaAI Mission.
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Genesis by IKP — Deep Science Startup Incubation (Cohort 1)

💡 ₹30 lakh + deep hands-on mentorship for breakthrough deep science at TRL 2–3 — IKP takes 2–3% equity in exchange for 12 months of direct translation support.

📅Jul 31, 2026 (4d left)
🌍India
👤Deep science startups at TRL 2–3 (early proof-of-concept stage). Must be incorporated as Private Limited company in India (OPC and LLP not eligible). At least 51% shareholding by Indian citizens. Sectors: Diagnostics, Biotherapeutics, Industrial Biotech, Healthtech & AI. Only 4–5 startups selected per cohort.
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Fellowship

Meta Research PhD Fellowship 2026

💡 $42,000 annual stipend + 2 years tuition paid — one of the most prestigious PhD fellowships in CS/AI, open to international students at any university worldwide.

📅Sep 20, 2026 (55d left)
🌍Global (Remote)
👤Full-time PhD students at any stage at an accredited university worldwide. Any nationality. Research must align with Meta's priority areas: AI/ML, AR/VR, privacy, HCI, networking, programming languages, statistics, computational social science. One letter must be from academic advisor.
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Fellowship

Cohere Labs Scholars Program — 8-Month Research Apprenticeship

💡 8-month paid ML research apprenticeship at Cohere Labs — no PhD or publications required, explicitly designed to create new entry points into research.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Strong engineering background demonstrated through open-source contributions, work experience, or a portfolio — publication record explicitly NOT required. Fully remote. No relocation support or visa sponsorship. Full-time commitment required. Open globally.
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Fractional job

Fractional Technical Advisor — Computer Vision (Worldwide, Part-Time)

💡 Fractional Technical Advisor in Computer Vision — Arc Exclusive, part-time, worldwide, hourly rate, actively hiring.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Senior ML/Computer Vision engineer with advisory-level depth. Part-time engagement, hourly rate. Minimum 4-hour timezone overlap with Lisbon (UTC+1). Open worldwide. Arc Exclusive listing — apply via arc.dev.
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Internship

Research Intern — Reinforcement Learning (RL)

💡 Build RL environments and agentic decisioning systems at a fast-growing Series C AI company.

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🌍India
👤Students/candidates with strong RL fundamentals and familiarity with RL training libraries (e.g. Verl, Tinker).
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Intern — AI-Native Software Engineering

💡 Ship production code at an AI-native edtech company, using AI coding agents as a daily tool.

📅Aug 18, 2026 (22d left)
🌍India
👤Final-year computer science/engineering students based in or able to relocate to New Delhi.
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Internship

Artificial Intelligence for Flight Control Laws Internship

💡 Apply AI/ML to real flight-control-law engineering at Airbus India.

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🌍India
👤Students pursuing a degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, with ML/Python fundamentals.
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Fellowship

Northeast India AI Research Fellowship

💡 Build real NLP models for underrepresented Northeast Indian languages, fully remote.

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🌍India
👤Undergraduate or graduate students in CS, AI, linguistics, or related fields. Native/heritage speakers of Northeast Indian languages strongly encouraged; students from anywhere welcome.
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Pathfinder Fellowship — Fall 2026

💡 Get funding and mentorship to run your university's AI safety or policy group.

📅Jul 28, 2026 (1d left)
🌍Global (Remote)
👤Students organizing (or wanting to organize) a technical AI safety or AI policy university group, anywhere in the world.
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Fractional job

SPAR Part-Time Contractor

💡 Part-time operations work supporting the largest AI safety research fellowship in the field.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Motivated candidates able to support program operations/coordination for an AI safety research fellowship; flexible commitment.
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Internship

Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

💡 The best-known globally-open coding stipend program — pick an AI/ML org and build for a summer, no country restriction.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally to anyone 18+. No university enrollment required in recent cycles — check current year's rules. Contribute to an open-source org's AI/ML-adjacent project (e.g. TensorFlow, HumanAI Foundation) over the program period.
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Outreachy

💡 Paid, diversity-focused open-source internship, fully remote and open worldwide — some rounds include AI/ML projects.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open worldwide, with a focus on groups underrepresented in tech. Applicants must be able to work ~30 hrs/week for the internship period. Some AI/ML-focused projects available each round; check current project list.
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LFX Mentorship

💡 Linux Foundation mentorship stipend, open worldwide — check each term's project list for ML/data tracks.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally to students and early-career developers. Multiple terms per year across Linux Foundation projects, including ML/data infrastructure tracks.
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Microsoft Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest

💡 One of the few OSS fellowship programs that's directly reinforcement-learning-focused, open worldwide.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally to students and early-career developers with RL fundamentals. Contribute to Microsoft Research's open-source reinforcement-learning projects over a defined program period.
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Julia Summer of Code (JSoC)

💡 Contribute to Julia's numerical/ML computing ecosystem — stipend-funded, open worldwide.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally. Contribute to the Julia language ecosystem, including numerical computing and ML-adjacent packages, over a defined program period.
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John Hunter Technology Fellowship — NumFOCUS

💡 Fellowship supporting the scientific Python stack underneath most ML workflows — open worldwide.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally to contributors to the scientific Python / data stack (e.g. Matplotlib and related NumFOCUS-sponsored projects).
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sktime Mentoring Program

💡 Hands-on time-series ML library contribution with direct maintainer mentorship — open worldwide.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally to contributors interested in time-series machine learning. No fixed degree or country requirement stated.
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Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) — UC Santa Cruz OSPO

💡 Research-flavored OSS internship from a university OSPO — check each cycle for AI/ML project availability.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally. Research-focused open-source internship; project list varies by cycle and includes some AI/ML-adjacent research topics — verify current project list before applying.
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Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP) — Chinese Academy of Sciences

💡 GSoC-style stipend program from the Chinese Academy of Sciences — check each cycle's org list for AI/ML projects.

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🌍Global (Remote)
👤Open globally to student and early-career contributors. Participating org list rotates each cycle and includes some AI/ML orgs — verify current org list before applying.
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AIAF Fellowship 2026

💡 Paid, full-time AI alignment research fellowship — $12K stipend, real research output, open globally.

📅Aug 17, 2026 (21d left)
🌍Global (Remote)
👤Strong ML background able to run experiments and debug own code; some form of independent research (LessWrong post, hackathon project, thesis, preprint) required. Open to applicants from any country.
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AI Dev Tools Zoomcamp

💡 Free, practical course on using AI coding agents in a real engineering workflow — from a well-known bootcamp community.

🟢 Free
📅Aug 31, 2026 (35d left)
🌍Global (Remote)
👤Developers, software engineers, data professionals, and technical students with basic programming experience.
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