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The AI Co-Research Fellowship brings together researchers, analysts, economists, scientists, and technical experts who want to explore how autonomous systems can expand the scale and ambition of research.

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AI Co-Researcher

Built for researchers

The AI Co-Research Fellowship brings together researchers who want to explore how autonomous systems can expand the scale and ambition of research.

Apply for the Fellowship

The Zerve Research Fellowship

Fellows receive access to advanced autonomous research capabilities, tens of thousands of dollars worth of compute and AI resources, and direct collaboration with the Zerve team and other researchers pursuing ambitious projects.

Fellowship

The Zerve Research Fellowship

10,000s of credits

Additional credits

More runs, longer workflows, and deeper experimentation.

Compute Support

Help scaling analyses beyond a local machine.

Technical guidance

Support on agents, workflows, environments, and reproducibility.

Research Support

Help shaping the work into a paper, review, replication study, or research showcase.

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what we look for

Our initial focus is on three forms of research

  • Investigating new questions and generating new knowledge.

  • Independent reconstructions of published results, using the same data and method, to check whether the finding holds end to end.

  • Structured surveys of the existing evidence in a field, mapping what's known, what's disputed, and what's still missing.

what we look for

Our initial focus is on three forms

who should apply

Who should apply

  • Academic Research
  • PhD students
  • Industry researchers
  • Independent researchers
  • Research teams
what we look for

What we look for

  • A problem worth solving
  • Analytical or computational depth
  • A clear role for AI
  • Potential for reproducible outputs
  • Ambition beyond a simple demo

who should apply

Who should apply

what we look for

What we look for

How the fellowship process works

STEP 01

Apply

Fill in the form below. We read every application.

STEP 02

Review

We review applications on a rolling basis and respond within 7 days.

STEP 03

Onboarding

Selected fellows receive an onboarding call to discuss their project and next steps.

FAQ

  • Yes. Selected researchers receive 10,000s of credits, compute support, and technical guidance at no cost — there's no fee to apply or participate.

  • You retain full ownership of your research, data, and results. With your permission, Zerve may reference or feature the work publicly (e.g. as a case study).

  • Applications are individual — credits are awarded to a single profile. If you're working as a team, each participant can submit their own application.

  • Your data stays within your Zerve workspace and is never used to train models or shared without your consent. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Frequently asked questions

FAQ

Join the Future of Research

For researchers interested in exploring what becomes possible when human judgment is combined with autonomous execution.

Join the Future of Research

For researchers interested in exploring what becomes possible when human judgment is combined with autonomous execution.

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