Open Source & Research
Credit Grants
Free API credits, GPU compute, and Hanzo Team access for open-source contributors, academic PhD researchers, and research interns.
Share your open-source PRs, repository, or academic research topic
What Grant Recipients & Interns Receive
Compute, models, and workspaces to ship open research and open-source software.
Free API & Compute Credits
Receive free Hanzo Cloud, LLM API, and GPU compute credits for your open-source project, university lab, or dissertation research.
Full Hanzo Team Access
Get complimentary Hanzo Team workspaces, Hanzo Dev coding agents, and direct collaboration channels with our core research and systems engineers.
Open Weights & Papers
Everything you research or contribute ships in the open under your own name — open-source repositories, checkpoints, and peer-reviewed papers.
Frontier Checkpoints & Infra
Early access to Zen foundation models, Kai decision models, Enso routing policies, and distributed training / evaluation clusters.
Three Ways to Build & Research with Us
Whether you are contributing PRs to our open-source repos, running PhD experiments, or applying for a research internship.
Open Source Contributor Grants
2,137+ repositories · 122 organizationsWe always welcome and accept open-source contributors across our repositories on GitHub and git.hanzo.ai. Ship pull requests, maintain SDKs or MCP servers, or build open-source tools powered by Hanzo to receive recurring API, Cloud, and Dev credit grants.
Academic & PhD Research Grants
PhD students · University labs · Independent researchersInvestigating foundation models, RLHF/post-training, ML compilers, post-quantum cryptography, or agentic systems? Approved academic researchers receive free API & compute credits and full access to Hanzo Team for their research.
Academic & PhD Research Internships
Remote / SF · Year-round cohortsLooking to intern with our research and systems teams during your PhD or graduate studies? Work directly on Zen, Kai, Enso, Hanzo Engine, and Hanzo Dev — with free compute credits, Hanzo Team access, and co-authored publications.
Apply for Credits or a Research Internship
Tell us about your open-source contributions, academic research, or internship goals. We review submissions every week.