March 2026
Winners announced Upcoming
November 25, 2025
Final applications deadline
All submission to be considered for the first-ever Laude Moonshots grant due. 120 final applications submitted.
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October 25, 2025
Deadline to submit abstracts
Required submission of 1-2 page abstracts outlining preliminary problem framing, proposed approach, and impact rationale. Used to estimate panel load and finalize review assignments.
October 15, 2025
Townhall with Laude's Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski
Virtual town hall covering program goals, evaluation criteria, submission guidance, and Q&A with the Moonshots leadership team.
October 8, 2025
Moonshots Program committee announced
Laude announces its first Moonshots program committee, a group composed of leading figures in technology, AI research, economics, biomedical science, and public policy. The committee includes Turing Award winners, Nobel laureates, senior research leaders, influential founders, leading economists, prominent AI researchers, experts in biomedical innovation, and policy leaders.
The committee is charged with selecting eight projects for $250,000 seed grants across four areas of broad societal impact (civic discourse, scientific discovery, frontline healthcare, and workforce reskilling), which will serve as the pipeline for a fully funded multi-year Moonshot lab.
June 18, 2025
Official Moonshots call for proposals at SYR Summit
Laude formally launched the first-ever Moonshots program with a public call for proposals at the Laude SYR Summit. The announcement included thematic focus areas, eligibility criteria, funding structure, and the full submission timeline, marking the open invitation to research teams to apply.
Spring 2025
University Roadshow with Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski
Multi-campus tour across major research universities to introduce Moonshots, gather early feedback, and recruit prospective PIs. Stops include UC Berkeley, UW–Madison, UIUC, UCLA, Caltech, Stanford, University of Washington, MIT.
December 2024
Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives released
Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives, presenting a blueprint for how AI can be steered toward global benefit, is published. The authors include Mariano‑Florentino Cuéllar, Jeff Dean, Finale Doshi‑Velez, John Hennessy, Andy Konwinski, Sanmi Koyejo, Pelonomi Moiloa, Emma Pierson, and David Patterson.
Key areas of study covered by the document include employment and workforce adaptation, education and learning systems, healthcare and medical-AI innovation, information/disinformation and civic discourse, entertainment/media impact, governance/national-security, and broad human-AI collaboration.