"The US Department of Energy (DOE) has a Christmas gift for the AI industry in the shape of agreements for collaboration in the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, which aims to use AI to drive scientific discoveries. On Thursday, the DOE said it had signed agreements with 24 organizations interested in working to advance the Genesis project. The list includes the usual AI ecosystem suspects, with developers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI; major cloud operators AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle; server makers Dell and HPE; chip suppliers AMD, Intel, and Nvidia; plus everyone's favorite Bond villain organization, Palantir."
"However, the agreements are not contracts to provide services as such, but are described by the DOE as Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with organizations that have either expressed interest in response to a Request for Information (RFI), or which already have active projects with DOE and its National Laboratories for activities related to the Genesis Mission. "These agreements help advance President Trump's Executive Order to build the national AI platform for scientific discovery and uplift the entire US R&D ecosystem," said Genesis Mission director and DOE Under Secretary for Science Dr Darío Gil."
"The Genesis project was kick-started just last month via an executive order issued by President Trump. It aims to create an integrated Science and Security Platform for the US by pulling together supercomputers and other resources across the DOE's 17 National Laboratories and supplementing this with input from industry and academia. Earlier this month, the agency announced $320 million in funding for four initiatives as part of the project, including the American Science Cloud (AmSC) as the infrastructure platform for Genesis, the Transformational AI Models Consortium (ModCon) to work on model development, and various projects to curate existing datasets and develop AI models validated for scientific applications."
The Department of Energy signed Memorandums of Understanding with 24 organizations to collaborate on the Genesis Mission, which uses AI to accelerate scientific discovery. Participant types include AI developers, major cloud providers, server manufacturers, and chip suppliers. The MOUs are expressions of collaboration or reflect existing DOE projects, not procurement contracts. The Genesis Mission aims to build an integrated Science and Security Platform by connecting DOE supercomputers and resources across 17 National Laboratories with industry and academia. The DOE allocated $320 million to four initiatives, including the American Science Cloud, a models consortium (ModCon), dataset curation, and validated scientific AI models.
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