The White House has launched the Genesis Mission, “a dedicated, coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century”. Genesis formally recognizes scientific foundation models and AI agents as core national capabilities; it will develop a platform “to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs”. The program:
- ...will bring together our Nation’s research and development resources...to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization.
- ...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
- ...will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity
Read the full announcement here.
