Simons 基金会联合 Anthropic 与 OpenAI 投入 1500 万美元，资助数学界应对 AI 时代

The Simons Foundation today announced a new set of initiatives that will help the mathematics community navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the field.

Under a partnership, the Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI will commit $15 million in combined funding and resources. The foundation will manage and award funding, including through an open call for proposals, to support workshops and initiatives that help researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results, learn and use new tools, share perspectives and shape collective standards for AI use.

“As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the research landscape, we want to help the mathematical community come together and forge the best path forward,” says Simons Foundation President David Spergel. “Now is the time to look at mathematics as a whole — not as a collection of proofs and theorems, but as a collective understanding driven by human curiosity.”

Applications are now open for the Targeted Grants to Math+AI Institutes funding opportunity. The proposal submission deadline is December 1, 2026, at noon Eastern time.

Anthropic and OpenAI will also provide AI tools and computing resources to a select group of researchers supported by the Simons Foundation, extending beyond mathematics to include basic science. Awardees will be contacted directly by the foundation.

The awards and resources will be community-driven and leverage the foundation’s decades-long dedication to supporting and championing mathematics. The foundation was an early backer of machine learning for science, including funding the development of the Lean proof assistant, which has revolutionized how mathematicians work and made AI-assisted proofs possible. Additionally, the foundation has convened workshops, lectures and collaborations that have brought mathematicians together to explore and discuss AI’s role in the field.

“This is a moment for the mathematics community to come together,” Spergel says. “The community should be driving discussions of how these tools are evaluated, adopted and used, not any single company or institution. The goal of the program is to support the mathematics community.”

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