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- Kayode Crown | kcrown@al.com
The U.S. government announced $5 billion Wednesday to harness artificial intelligence for scientific research
Michael Kratsios, who heads White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy said in a release that more than 15 federal agencies will contribute research awards, funding opportunities, specialized scientific datasets and research facilities
The initiative will connect researchers with data, computing ree, manufacturing and affordability challenges, per the announcement
President Donald Trump signed the Genesis Mission executive order in November calling for an integrated AI platform to harness federal scientific datasets to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows and accelerate scientific breakthroughs
“We will harness for the benefit of our Nation the revolution underway in computing, and build on decades of innovation in semiconductors and high-performance computing,” the executive order reads
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy said the initiative will mobilize “the nation’s best researchers to uncover the root causes of chronic disease, accelerate lifesaving breakthroughs, and help Make America Healthy Again.”
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he looks forward to faster science, stronger engineering and better mission outcomes
“Leveraging our relationships with interagency counterparts, NASA can advance AI tools that accelerate exploration, strengthen American leadership in space, and open new paths to understanding our planet and the universe,” he said in a statement
Emil Michael, the Under Secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said with the Genesis Mission, the department is “scaling investments across AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology to turn our decades of data into a catalyst for scientific discovery to support the American warfighter.”
In an interview with Reuters,Kratsios said that scientists will have access to the Department of Energy’s supercomputers, AI and specialized datasets, along with other tools needed to conduct AI-driven experiments
Major technology companies also pledged support for the effort today
- Google committed $40 million of AI tokens and cloud credits
- Microsoft announced $60 million in compute, AI credits support and engineering services
- OpenAI said it will provide $17 million of its artificial intelligence technologies
