The US Department of Energy and two dozen AI labs and companies this week announced collaborations aimed at boosting the use of artificial intelligence in scientific research.
This week's news focused mostly on organizations in the AI and computing industries, with the goal of building a platform for what the Trump administration has dubbed the "Genesis Mission." More announcements are expected to come involving universities, nonprofits and research organizations.
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Dario Gil, DOE's undersecretary for science and director of the Genesis Mission, says the goal is to create a platform for AI-enhanced scientific research at the department's national laboratories and across the tech industry, academia and more.
"We are committed to expanding this ecosystem and truly making it into a collaborative endeavor from all the institutions that make scientific and technological progress in America," Gil told CNET in an interview Friday.
What are companies committing for scientific research?
Tech companies that announced their involvement this week include some of the biggest names in AI -- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind -- as well as hardware companies like Nvidia and Intel and data center providers like Oracle CoreWeave and Amazon Web Services.
These companies pledged a variety of resources for the project. In a blog post, OpenAI said the memorandum of understanding it signed with the DOE would provide a clear way to ensure the company and DOE's labs can work together. OpenAI said it's already working with some labs to put frontier AI models on supercomputers to help researchers.
Google DeepMind said it would provide its frontier scientific AI models and tools for scientists at all 17 national laboratories. Early next year, the company will provide early access to tools like AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent that could be used in areas like material science and drug discovery; AlphaGenome, a model for genetic research; and WeatherNext, a set of weather forecasting models.
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