AI mentions in federal grant notices

Pulled every notice off Grants.gov from 2010 through April 2026 — 76,754 opportunities — and counted how often the phrase "artificial intelligence" shows up in the announcement text. The share is flat through 2019, drifts up through 2024, then jumps sharply after the January 2025 inauguration.
Line chart of the share of Grants.gov opportunities mentioning "artificial intelligence" by month, 2010–2026, overlaid on bar chart of total opportunities per year
Share mentioning the phrase climbs from ~0% in 2010 to ~10% by early 2026. Total opportunities per year stay between 4k–6k throughout.
The bars are a sanity check: volume of grant notices hasn't collapsed, so the rising share isn't an artifact of a shrinking denominator.
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