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Trump signs executive order for AI project called Genesis Mission to boost scientific discoveries
President Donald Trump is directing the federal government to combine efforts with tech companies and universities to convert government data into scientific discoveries, acting on his push to make artificial intelligence the engine of the nation's economic future. Trump unveiled the "Genesis Mission" as part of an executive order he signed Monday that directs the Department of Energy and national labs to build a digital platform to concentrate the nation's scientific data in one place. It solicits private sector and university partners to use their AI capability to help the government solve engineering, energy and national security problems, including streamlining the nation's electric grid, according to White House officials who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity to describe the order before it was signed. Officials made no specific mention of seeking medical advances as part of the project. "The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation's research and development resources -- combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites -- to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization," the executive order says. The administration portrayed the effort as the government's most ambitious marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo space missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, even as it had cut billions of dollars in federal funding for scientific research and thousands of scientists had lost their jobs and funding. Trump is increasingly counting on the tech sector and the development of AI to power the U.S. economy, made clear last week as he hosted Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The monarch has committed to investing $1 trillion, largely from the Arab nation's oil and natural gas reserves, to pivot his nation into becoming an AI data hub. For the U.S.'s part, funding was appropriated to the Energy Department as part of the massive tax-break and spending bill signed into law by Trump in July, White House officials said. As AI raises concerns that its heavy use of electricity may be contributing to higher utility rates in the nearer term, which is a political risk for Trump, administration officials argued that rates will come down as the technology develops. They said the increased demand will build capacity in existing transmission lines and bring down costs per unit of electricity. Data centers needed to fuel AI accounted for about 1.5% of the world's electricity consumption last year, and those facilities' energy consumption is predicted to more than double by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. That increase could lead to burning more fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, which release greenhouse gases that contribute to warming temperatures, sea level rise and extreme weather. The project will rely on national labs' supercomputers but will also use supercomputing capacity being developed in the private sector. The project's use of public data including national security information along with private sector supercomputers prompted officials to issue assurances that there would be controls to respect protected information.
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Trump Orders Construction of A.I. Platform to Use Troves of Government Data for Research
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to bolster national scientific research through the use of artificial intelligence. The order directs the Department of Energy's national laboratories to create an A.I. platform that will fuse troves of federal data on health, energy and manufacturing, in partnership with A.I. companies. The technology is to be used to automate experiments, design research simulations and generate predictive models for "everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics," Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters on Monday in a briefing before the executive order was publicly announced. The government's plan is to first use existing supercomputers within the country's 17 national labs, and then eventually build more computing infrastructure. The White House did not say how the costs of additional technology would be funded. The chipmakers Nvidia and AMD and the computer giants Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell have already agreed to build facilities within the national labs, a White House official, who spoke about details of the program on the condition of anonymity, told reporters in the briefing. Some data will be shared with A.I. companies, but the White House official said that the government would withhold sensitive information that could put national security at risk. "This will shorten discovery timelines from years to days or even hours, empowering scientists to test bolder hypotheses and discover breakthroughs currently unreachable," Mr. Kratsios added. It was Mr. Trump's latest executive order on A.I. From his first days in office, Mr. Trump has issued orders to knock down regulatory obstacles and fast-track permitting and exports of A.I. He has championed Silicon Valley's A.I. industry, warning that regulations could impede the nation's battle against China for economic and tech leadership.
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Trump unveils new AI 'Genesis Mission.' Here's what to know
Why it matters: The Trump administration seeks to ensure that government stays out of the way on AI regulation while actively supporting private-sector innovation. * At the same time, administration officials are eager to address consumer complaints that are mounting over energy bills, job displacement and other economic worries. Driving the news: The "Genesis Mission" seeks to encourage government information sharing with industry, academia and other scientific institutions. * Under the order, the Department of Energy will build a platform with AI capabilities for scientists and engineers to use in their work. * It would also create a portfolio of scientific and engineering challenges around energy and national security for Genesis Mission participants to pursue. * Other departments and agencies will be able to tackle their own challenges -- such as around drug discovery -- through the executive order. The big picture: Though they didn't give any cost estimates, administration officials portrayed the effort as the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo space program in the 1960s. * "The Genesis Mission will use AI to automate experiment, design, [and] accelerate simulations and generate predictive models for everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics," Michael Kratsios, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters. The intrigue: Huge data centers for training and using AI models are among the drivers of rising power demand -- and rising electricity bills. * Energy costs were front and center in the recent New Jersey and Virginia governors' races that Democrats won easily. Driving the news: Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who touted his agency's national labs' role in the project, argued that AI can help bring down costs. * "The ultimate goal of this is to make the lives better for American citizens," including creating job opportunities, he said at a press briefing. * "In the energy space, it's to bring more energy on, make our electricity grid more efficient and reverse price rises that have infuriated American citizens." What we're watching: The Trump administration expects more computing partnerships to come out of this project, noting that it has already announced agreements with giants including Nvidia, Dell and others. What's next: White House officials contend that the Genesis Mission will usher in major scientific advances.
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Trump Signs 'Genesis Mission' Executive Order to Use AI to Supercharge US Innovation - Decrypt
Agencies face deadlines to identify computing resources and demonstrate early capabilities. President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that establishes the "Genesis Mission," a national AI-for-science initiative that officials described as the largest federal research effort since the Manhattan Project. The order directs agencies to connect federal datasets, national laboratory supercomputers, and new AI systems that the administration said would accelerate scientific discovery across several fields and strengthen U.S. technological competitiveness. The order also creates a centralized system called the American Science and Security Platform. The Department of Energy said the platform would link supercomputers, secure cloud AI environments, scientific datasets, simulation tools, and automated laboratory systems to support model training and AI-directed experimentation. "The Genesis Mission will bring together our nation's research and development resources -- combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites -- to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization," the order said. Officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Energy said the Genesis Mission aims to cut research timelines "from years to days or even hours" by combining federal data with neural networks trained to generate predictions, direct experiments, and run simulations. They said the program would preserve copyright protections and national security restrictions, with open data available to researchers and proprietary or classified material limited to approved users. "We operate 28 user facilities and support 40,000 scientists and engineers. Some of the data sets are proprietary and bilateral with each party," a White House official said. "We also hold some of the most confidential and classified data sets the nation has, which are not available to third parties. All three categories will be used, and we will continue to advance partnerships based on each of them." The order requires DOE to apply federal classification, export-control, and cybersecurity standards to the new platform and to vet outside researchers or companies seeking access. When asked how the government planned to prevent hallucinations in the models used for the Genesis Mission, a White House official said that every prediction would be tested against experimental results. "These models are going to be used to issue predictions and formulate plans," the official told Decrypt. "If those predictions don't match what scientific instruments tell us, the predictions are wrong. Through that iterative process, we will make them work with the accuracy required to advance the Genesis Mission." Though the speakers used the term AI throughout the call, the official said the administration was not referring to consumer chatbots like ChatGPT or Grok. "When we talk about AI, what we're talking about is being able to encode the knowledge that is present in physics and chemistry and engineering in very massive neural networks," they said. "These neural networks are not just your traditional LLMs. We are going to combine that with physics, chemistry, and engineering-based models." The Genesis Mission follows several AI actions earlier in 2025. In January, the White House revoked a Biden administration order requiring companies to submit model-safety testing and evaluation results, arguing the policy slowed innovation. In July, the administration moved to ban so-called woke AI by directing federal agencies to support the development of AI systems free from ideological bias. The administration also reorganized federal oversight bodies, shifting them toward evaluation and competitiveness rather than the broader safety-testing framework used under the prior administration. Most recently, in an attempt to block state-backed AI regulations, the administration said it is considering an executive order to establish a federal AI regulatory framework. Monday's order directs national laboratories to expand existing supercomputers and connect them directly to scientific instruments, allowing AI systems to generate and validate predictions in real time. Officials said the United States already operated several of the world's highest-ranked machines. Under the order, the Department of Energy has 90 days to identify federal and cloud-based computing resources, 120 days to select initial datasets and models, and 240 days to review robotic and automated laboratory systems. The department is required to demonstrate an initial operating capability within 270 days. According to the White House, private sector interest in the Genesis Mission program had been "overwhelming," with an official noting that several companies -- including Nvidia, Dell, and AMD -- agreed to expand AI-focused computing capacity at national laboratories. Responding to questions about rising electricity demand from data centers, an official said increased load would drive new generation capacity and eventually lower per-unit costs. The official said the long-term effect would be to "reduce the price of electricity in the United States and increase the reliability of our grid." "Ultimately, AI and the buildout of hyperscalers will be a force to reduce the price of electricity in the United States and to increase the reliability of our grid," they said. The order also directs agencies to propose new scientific challenges and create a structure to coordinate research, data access, and partnerships across government, universities, and industry. The National Science and Technology Council would lead this work, with support from federal data and AI councils. It also creates research fellowships at national laboratories and requires the Department of Energy to file annual reports on platform performance, research progress, participation, and partnership outcomes. "In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories," the order said.
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Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
Washington -- President Trump on Monday signed an executive order meant to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of artificial intelligence, directing the Energy Department and its national labs to build an integrated AI platform using their existing and future supercomputers. The goal of what the White House is calling the "Genesis Mission" is to speed the research and scientific discovery process by analyzing massive data sets in the science, engineering, energy and health care spaces from the federal government, university and private sector with supercomputing technology. It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, told reporters on a conference call the Genesis mission is "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program." "By fusing massive federal data sets, advanced supercomputing capabilities, and world-leading scientific facilities, the Genesis mission will use AI to automate experiment design, accelerate simulation and generate protective models for everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics," Krastios said. "This will shorten discovery timelines from years to days or even hours, empowering scientists to test bolder hypotheses and discover breakthroughs currently unreachable." White House officials told reporters on the conference call that they want to bring in AI supercomputing capacity that the private sector is building. The White House said there's been significant interest from the private sector from companies that include Nvidia and Dell. The effort will begin with the existing supercomputers at the Department of Energy's 17 national labs, although the administration intends to build more supercomputers. It's not clear, however, how the mission will be funded, and White House officials suggested that more help from Congress could be needed down the road. One of the officials on the call said the Energy Department already operates "some of the best supercomputing facilities in the world." The official said that the administration will leverage all available resources and, with the help of Congress would "continue to invest increasing amounts for the success of the mission." "I think we will see unbelievable advancements in health sciences, so many diseases today that are unfortunate death sentences," one of the officials on the call said. "We're going to understand the exact chemistry and biology that they are and how to combat that. We've seen progress with that relatively significant progress the last five years. It's nothing compared to what we're going to see in the next five years."
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Trump signs executive order launching AI initiative compared to the Manhattan Project
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday.Andrew Harnik / Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon launching a new federal effort to supercharge American artificial intelligence research, development and scientific applications. Unveiling the new "Genesis Mission" to support American efforts on AI, the order charted out a series of steps to expand computational resources, increase access to vast federal datasets and move towards impactful, real-world applications, particularly in scientific fields. "The Genesis Mission will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development," the order stated. Michael Kratsios, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and director of the Office for Science and Technology Policy, will lead the effort. Among other measures, the order charged Secretary of Energy Chris Wright with establishing a new "American Science and Security Platform" to centralize the infrastructure required for the new push. According to the order, the platform will focus on providing researchers with the computing power and datasets necessary to train AI models. "The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets -- the world's largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments -- to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs," the order said. The order opened the door to significantly increased public-private partnerships on AI development: within 90 days, the Secretary of Energy must identify systems and data available to support the program, including "resources available through industry partners." AI systems require immense datasets in order to learn how to represent the real world. With its vast troves of information about Americans and their activities, the federal government has an enviable, but often decentralized and disorganized, gold mine of data untapped by AI companies to-date. Monday's order targeted these barriers to data-sharing, giving Kratsios responsibility of "integrating appropriate and available agency data and infrastructure into the Mission." With increased computing resources and access to data, AI should then be applied to practical and critical scientific issues within 270 days, the order stated. These areas of "science and technology challenges of national importance" include advanced manufacturing and robotics, biotechnology and nuclear fission and fusion. Monday's announcement builds on the existing National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR). The NAIRR was created in 2020 by the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 to provide a shared, robust national research infrastructure to "accelerate AI and AI-powered discovery and innovation." The NAIRR started as a pilot program, bringing together a coalition of federal agencies, ranging from the Department of Defense and NASA to the National Institutes of Health, and non-governmental organizations like OpenAI, Google and Palantir, to set up a nationwide research community. Lynne Parker, who co-chaired the NAIRR Task Force as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States and is now Associate Vice Chancellor Emirata at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said federal support for AI research is pivotal to future progress. "Government support for AI research builds the foundation for new breakthroughs and helps keep innovation aligned with the public interest," Parker told NBC News. "We take for granted that new products appear regularly but seldom consider the decades of research that made them possible." "Without long-term investment, we risk ceding leadership in the technologies that will define our economy, our security, and our daily lives," she said. The Trump administration's AI Action Plan, released in July, emphasized the role of national research and development efforts, partially stemming from the NAIRR, "to foster the next generation of AI breakthroughs." Monday's executive order came weeks after the federal government announced new partnerships with some of America's leading AI companies to build the next generation of AI-focused supercomputers. At the end of October, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a new partnership with AMD to launch two new supercomputers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to some of America's leading federal AI researchers. "Winning the AI race requires new and creative partnerships that will bring together the brightest minds and industries American technology and science has to offer," U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said at the time in a statement. "Working with AMD and HPE, we're bringing new capacity online faster than ever before, turning shared innovation into national strength, and proving that America leads when private-public partners build together," Wright said, referencing Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)'s role in building the supercomputers. At the beginning of November, the Department of Energy announced further plans to expand Oak Ridge's Leadership Computer Facility with high-powered Nvidia chips to tackle complex quantum-computing and AI-focused research.
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Trump signs executive order for AI project called Genesis Mission to boost scientific discoveries
President Donald Trump is directing the federal government to combine efforts with tech companies and universities to convert government data into scientific discoveries, acting on his push to make artificial intelligence the engine of the nation's economic future. Trump unveiled the "Genesis Mission" as part of an executive order he signed Monday that directs the Department of Energy and national labs to build a digital platform to concentrate the nation's scientific data in one place. It solicits private sector and university partners to use their AI capability to help the government solve engineering, energy and national security problems, including streamlining the nation's electric grid, according to White House officials who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity to describe the order before it was signed. Officials made no specific mention of seeking medical advances as part of the project. "The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation's research and development resources -- combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites -- to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization," the executive order says. The administration portrayed the effort as the government's most ambitious marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo space missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, even as it had cut billions of dollars in federal funding for scientific research and thousands of scientists had lost their jobs and funding. Trump is increasingly counting on the tech sector and the development of AI to power the U.S. economy, made clear last week as he hosted Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The monarch has committed to investing $1 trillion, largely from the Arab nation's oil and natural gas reserves, to pivot his nation into becoming an AI data hub. For the federal government's part, funding was appropriated to the Energy Department as part of the massive tax-break and spending bill signed into law by Trump in July, White House officials said. As AI raises concerns that its heavy use of electricity may be contributing to higher utility rates in the nearer term, which is a political risk for Trump, administration officials argued that rates will come down as the technology develops. They said the increased demand will build capacity in existing transmission lines and bring down costs per unit of electricity. Data centers needed to fuel AI accounted for about 1.5% of the world's electricity consumption last year, and those facilities' energy consumption is predicted to more than double by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. That increase could lead to burning more fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, which release greenhouse gases that contribute to warming temperatures, sea level rise and extreme weather. The project will rely on national labs' supercomputers but will also use supercomputing capacity being developed in the private sector. The project's use of public data including national security information along with private sector supercomputers prompted officials to issue assurances that there would be controls to respect protected information.
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Trump Aims to Boost AI Innovation, Build Platform to Harness Government Data
(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial intelligence platform to harness federal scientific datasets to train next-generation technologies. The effort, dubbed the Genesis Mission, aims to transform scientific research and speed scientific discoveries by using massive government scientific datasets "to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs." (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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Trump signs order creating Genesis Mission to boost AI-driven research
Trump signs order creating Genesis Mission to boost AI-driven research President Trump on Monday signed an executive order establishing the Genesis Mission, a new endeavor to expand AI resources for scientific research. The Genesis Mission, which the administration is comparing to the Apollo program that sent Americans to the moon in the late 1960s, seeks to create an integrated AI platform that brings together federal datasets, computing resources and AI tools to boost scientific discovery. "Since the 1990s, America's scientific edge has faced growing challenges -- new drug approvals have flatlined or declined, more researchers are needed to achieve the same output and workforce training has stagnated," Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters Monday. "Genesis Mission aims to overcome these challenges by unifying agency scientific efforts and integrating AI as a scientific tool to revolutionize the way science and research are conducted," he continued. The executive order directs Energy Secretary Chris Wright to create and operate the "American Science and Security Platform," which the White House describes as "a closed-loop AI experimentation platform" bringing together existing resources from the National Laboratories. This is meant to include high-performance computing resources, AI modeling and analysis frameworks, computational tools, domain-specific foundation models and secure access to datasets. Wright is also tasked with identifying a list of "science and technology challenges of national importance," as well as evaluating federal computing resources and identifying potential partnerships. He suggested Monday that several previously announced partnerships are part of this effort to expand computing resources, pointing to new projects from Nvidia, AMD and HPE with the National Laboratories. The energy secretary sought to frame the Genesis Mission in the context of the president's new affordability push, arguing that the "ultimate goal of this is to make lives better for American citizens." "What does innovation and improvement drive? It drives efficiency," Wright said. "We want the federal government to work better, to work faster, more accurately and more efficient for the American people and want the American economy to do the same thing. And what do you get out of that? More production, less cost, lower prices." Trump has increasingly focused his attention on this affordability message in recent weeks after a disappointing performance for Republicans in the off-year elections earlier this month.
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Trump signs order harnessing federal resources for AI boom
Google just rolled out Gemini 3, its newest AI model, and it's built to handle tougher questions with way less prompting. The federal government's scientific data and computing power will help feed the artificial intelligence boom under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. The Nov. 24 executive order creates the Genesis Mission, which the Trump administration describes as one of the nation's largest "marshalling of federal scientific resources." Administration officials said AI companies will get access to scientific data sets held by the government, which operates 17 National Laboratories through the Department of Energy. The Labs conduct cutting-edge research and have some of the world's most advanced supercomputers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the goal is to harness AI for "scientific discovery." "And to do that, you need the data sets that are contained across our National Labs," Wright said, adding: "This will drive an incredible increase in the pace of scientific discovery and innovation." The order also directs the government to create a computing platform for integrating AI with the National Labs infrastructure, and to establish a set of priorities for scientific discovery, according to a White House official. The order comes amid a massive wave of AI investment, with tech companies devoting huge funds to developing AI models and the infrastructure needed to support them. The companies need data sets to train their models. The federal data represents another source. It comes with concerns about accessing copyrighted or sensitive material that could have national security implications. Controls will be put in place to protect such data, an official said. After a once-cool relationship with Silicon Valley, Trump has been embraced by many tech leaders in his second term, and the president has taken a favorable approach to the industry, promoting cryptocurrencies, warning foreign countries against adopting tech regulations, and pushing a plan for American dominance in artificial intelligence while dropping former President Joe Biden's AI restrictions. The White House also was considering an executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits and by withholding federal funds, but has put that order on hold, according to Reuters. Trump hosted a Sept. 4 dinner at the White House that included a who's who of the tech world elite.
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Trump launches 'Genesis Mission' to boost AI with inspiration from...
WASHINGTON -- President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating a federal "Genesis mission" to support US dominance in artificial intelligence -- with officials comparing it to the Apollo Program that landed men on the moon during the space race. Administration officials said the initiative would "massively accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs" by using "unmatched computing capabilities and resources of the Department of Energy's National Laboratories to unlock federal data sets." The National Labs will work with private companies to generate research that can be applied to healthcare, energy production and engineering, officials said. The document orders Energy Secretary Chris Wright to "establish and operate the American Science and Security Platform (Platform) to serve as the infrastructure for the Mission." The platform will include "high-performance computing resources, including DOE national laboratory supercomputers and secure cloud-based AI computing environments, capable of supporting large-scale model training, simulation, and inference," the order says. Wright is also ordered to determine federal research facilities "with the ability to engage in AI-directed experimentation and manufacturing" and to source "datasets from federally funded research, other agencies, academic institutions, and approved private-sector partners, as appropriate." The mission's goal is "bringing together of scientific data sets of the top scientists across our 17 National Laboratories, across our United States university system and across the private sector businesses that are focused on science, engineering, innovation and energy," an official said. Officials who briefed reporters on the plan said that the initiative will respect copyright protections for published works. "We're going to be very careful to respect intellectual property rights," one official said. "We've got to protect copyrights and sensitive information. That'll be true as long as the mission goes on." "The Genesis Mission will use AI to automate experiment design, accelerate simulations and generate predictive models for everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics," one official said. "This will shorten discovery timelines from years to days or even hours, empowering scientists to test bolder hypotheses and discover breakthroughs currently unreachable." "With the power of AI, America is on the brink of a scientific revolution that will redefine American global scientific supremacy," he added. The president privately signed the document amid political backlash to a boom in data center construction, which has caused electricity prices to increase. The Energy Department has entered into partnerships this month with chipmakers and computing giants like Nvidia and Dell, AMD and HPE to support the mission, officials said. Those four companies said "we're ready to come build super compute facilities at your National Labs right now," said one official. "We will see unbelievable advancements in health sciences," a different official predicted. "We're going to understand the exact chemistry and biology that they are and how to combat [illnesses]. We've seen progress with that -- relatively significant progress in the last five years. It's nothing compared to what we're going to see in the next five years."
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Trump signs executive order to launch AI platform for scientific research By Investing.com
Investing.com -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to establish a government-wide initiative aimed at developing an integrated artificial intelligence platform that will utilize federal scientific datasets to train next-generation technologies. The initiative, named the Genesis Mission, seeks to transform scientific research and accelerate discoveries by leveraging extensive government scientific data "to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs." The executive order will coordinate efforts across federal agencies to build this AI platform, with the goal of enhancing the pace and efficiency of scientific innovation through advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&C.
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Trump aims to boost AI innovation, build platform to harness government data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial intelligence platform to harness federal scientific datasets to train next-generation technologies. The effort, dubbed the Genesis Mission, aims to transform scientific research and speed scientific discoveries by using massive government scientific datasets "to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs." Trump directed the U.S. Energy Department and U.S. National Laboratories "to unite America's brightest minds, most powerful computers, and vast scientific data into one cooperative system for research." DOE will create a closed-loop AI experimentation platform integrating U.S. supercomputers and datasets to generate foundation models and power robotic laboratories. Michael Kratsios, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the effort aims to unlock federal datasets and "massively accelerate the rate of scientific breakthrough." He said the Genesis Mission aims to use AI to "automate experiment design, accelerate simulation and generate predictive models for everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics. This will shorten discovery timelines from years to days or even hours." Energy Secretary Chris Wright noted the massive private-sector investment in AI but said the government wanted to pivot those efforts to "focus on scientific discovery, engineering advancements, and to do that, you need the data sets that are contained across our national labs." The order pays particular attention to U.S. national, economic, and health security, including biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, semiconductors and microelectronics. Trump has prioritized winning the AI race against China. Soon after taking office in January, Trump ordered his administration to produce an AI Action Plan that would make "America the world capital in artificial intelligence" and reduce regulatory barriers to its rapid expansion. He also rescinded an AI safety executive order signed by his predecessor Joe Biden. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler and Stephen Coates)
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President Trump signed an executive order establishing the Genesis Mission, directing the Department of Energy to create an AI platform that combines federal data with supercomputing resources. The initiative aims to accelerate scientific breakthroughs from years to days or hours across multiple fields.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday launching the "Genesis Mission," a comprehensive artificial intelligence initiative designed to accelerate scientific discovery by integrating federal data resources with advanced computing capabilities. The order directs the Department of Energy and its 17 national laboratories to create a centralized AI platform that officials describe as the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo space program
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The Genesis Mission aims to combine "brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites" to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization
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.The initiative centers on creating the American Science and Security Platform, which will link supercomputers, secure cloud AI environments, scientific datasets, simulation tools, and automated laboratory systems. Michael Kratsios, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, explained that the platform will "use AI to automate experiment design, accelerate simulations and generate predictive models for everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics"
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The project will initially utilize existing supercomputers within the national laboratory system before expanding to include additional computing infrastructure. Major technology companies including Nvidia, AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Dell have already committed to building facilities within the national labs to support the mission
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.Officials project that the Genesis Mission will compress research timelines "from years to days or even hours," enabling scientists to test more ambitious hypotheses and achieve previously unreachable breakthroughs
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. The platform will support research across multiple domains, including energy optimization, national security challenges, and potentially medical advances, though officials made no specific mention of seeking medical advances as a primary focus1
.The AI systems will not rely on traditional large language models like ChatGPT, but rather on specialized neural networks that encode knowledge from physics, chemistry, and engineering. These models will be combined with physics-based and chemistry-based models to generate predictions that are then tested against experimental results
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.The executive order establishes specific deadlines for implementation phases. The Department of Energy has 90 days to identify federal and cloud-based computing resources, 120 days to select initial datasets and models, and 240 days to review robotic and automated laboratory systems. The department must demonstrate initial operating capability within 270 days
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Security protocols will govern data access, with three categories of information: open data available to researchers, proprietary data shared bilaterally, and classified datasets restricted to approved users. The platform will apply federal classification, export-control, and cybersecurity standards to protect sensitive information
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The initiative addresses growing concerns about AI's electricity consumption, as data centers currently account for approximately 1.5% of global electricity usage and are predicted to more than double by 2030. Energy Secretary Chris Wright argued that AI can help reduce costs by making the electricity grid more efficient and bringing more energy online
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.Administration officials acknowledged that increased AI demand could lead to higher utility rates in the near term but contended that rates will decrease as the technology develops and builds capacity in existing transmission lines
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