Main evaluation criteria

• Does the proposal meet the requirements and advances the objectives of the RFP

• Has the team previously done similar or related research or development work in other platforms / languages / contexts?

• Does the team have expertise in alternative computing architectures, hardware design, and AGI workloads?

• Does the proposal offer good value for money?

• Does the proposal include a set of clearly defined milestones?
• We highly recommend submitting proposals with project milestones along the lines of the following:
  • Milestone 1: Identification of hardware paradigms and research plan Deliverables: Submission of a detailed research plan outlining the alternative hardware paradigms to be explored (e.g., temporal computing, race logic, analog, in-memory processing). Includes an initial assessment of their potential relevance to AGI workloads and a methodology for benchmarking and experimentation. 25% of grant

• • Milestone 2: Literature review and benchmarking criteria Deliverables: Completion of a focused literature review on selected paradigms, with specific attention to recursive reasoning, inference, and attention mechanisms in AGI. Development of benchmarking criteria to compare performance, scalability, and energy efficiency against traditional architectures. 25% of grant

• • Milestone 3: Initial experiments and feasibility testing Deliverables: Presentation of early experimental results using simulation or hardware-software co-design. Includes analysis of performance on AGI-relevant tasks and updated documentation based on findings. 25% of grant

• • Milestone 4: Final evaluation and prototype demonstration Deliverables: Submission of a final report comparing the tested architectures, with analysis of feasibility, cost, and integration potential. Delivery of a prototype or proof-of-concept showing one promising paradigm applied to an AGI use case. 25% of grant