Tech Giants Commit $2.4 Billion in AI Tools to Genesis Mission Amid Federal Research Funding Cuts
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Nvidia on Thursday scraped together some spare change to commit $1 billion -- about 1/60th of its quarterly profits -- to funding US scientific discovery over the next five years. The commitment, announced during an event in Washington, DC, aims to support the research and development of AI -- or
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Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research
Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are donating compute credits and AI tools to the Genesis Mission at a Washington summit where Satya Nadella is a guest of honour, hours after the vice president suspended Microsoft from the programme that sponsors foreign staff for permanent residency Five
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Exclusive: Inside Trump's AI science summit
Why it matters: The Trump administration is looking for industry to step in amid its cuts to government funding for science research and development. Driving the news: The White House is announcing more than $1 billion in industry commitments for the Genesis Mission from AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and
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Nvidia commits $1 billion to U.S. science and quantum computing
The chipmaker announced the commitments Thursday at a Washington event tied to the Trump administration's Genesis Mission program Nvidia $NVDA announced commitments valued at $1 billion on Thursday to build out U.S. capacity for research and development in quantum computing, healthcare, and energy
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Trump Awards Jensen Huang The National Medal Of Science, And Credits Him With Putting America At The Front Of The Super Intelligence Race, As NVIDIA Outcompetes With $1 Billion To The Genesis Fund
President Trump heaped inordinate praise on NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, earlier today as he bestowed on him the National Medal of Science. And, NVIDIA appears to have reciprocated the gesture by contributing the lion's share of commitments from the tech sector to the so-called Genesis Fund. Trump
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Tech Giants Contribute $2.4 Billion in AI Resources to White House Science Mission | PYMNTS.com
The contributions include AI for science tools and compute credit for the Genesis Mission Consortium, the White House said in a fact sheet. Nvidia committed $1 billion; AMD, $500 million; OpenAI, $200 million; Anthropic and Google, $150 million each; AMP and Emerald AI, $100 million each; and AWS,
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Trump unveils $2.4B investment from tech giants including Nvidia, OpenAI to fund federal AI mission
President Trump on Thursday announced a $2.4 billion commitment from major tech giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic to support federal agencies' AI-driven scientific research. The funding will be used to bring the Genesis Mission -- an effort to use AI to improve federal scientific
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Five major tech companies pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits to support the Genesis Mission at a White House summit. Nvidia leads with $1 billion over five years for quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security research. The commitments come as scientists warn that immigration restrictions and funding cuts are weakening America's research leadership against China.
Major Tech Companies Rally Behind Genesis Mission
Five American technology companies announced $2.4 billion in commitments to federal science initiatives at the Science: A New Golden Age summit in Washington, D.C.
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. Nvidia leads the pledges with $1 billion spread over five years, followed by AMD at $500 million, OpenAI at $200 million, and Anthropic and Google each contributing $150 million2
. The commitments take the form of AI tools and compute credits designed to accelerate scientific discovery through AI across quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security1
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.Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, stated that the investment aims to put "advanced Super Intelligence in the hands of America's scientists to accelerate breakthroughs in medicine, energy and materials"
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. The Genesis Mission, launched by executive order in November 2025, sets ambitious deadlines to maintain US scientific computing dominance and ensure America's continued technological leadership4
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.Nvidia Returns to US Supercomputing in Force
Nvidia's $1 billion commitment marks its significant return to American innovation in scientific computing after years of smaller involvement
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. The company will direct funding toward three key areas: supporting higher-education research institutions, funding US quantum computing development, and backing cloud service providers serving government mission needs5
.The chipmaker revealed last year it would supply seven new supercomputers across Argonne, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
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. Argonne will house the 100,000 Blackwell GPU-based Solstice supercomputer, built with Oracle and aimed at emerging AI-driven research workloads1
. Los Alamos' upcoming Mission and Vision systems will feature the same chips with Quantum-X800 InfiniBand connectivity1
.Nvidia has been deepening its involvement in quantum computing through software and infrastructure, launching the Ising family of open-source AI models in April to help researchers build quantum processors
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.Industry Steps In Amid Federal Funding Concerns
The Trump administration is looking for industry to fill gaps created by cuts to government funding for science research and development
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. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios said the commitments would "channel billions across the science ecosystem"2
.Additional announcements include a Southeast Regional AI Computing Consortium sharing resources across 10 states and a $1 billion investment in Georgia for student and faculty compute access
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. The National Science Foundation and Energy Department will invest more than $100 million in AI-driven science tools4
.A critical question remains unanswered: how the compute gets reserved. Credits are not guaranteed capacity, and the companies issuing them sell the same machine time to customers paying commercial rates
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. It remains unclear how the pledged power will be set aside for scientists2
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Scientists Warn of Weakening Research Position
Scientists and health researchers have warned that America's edge over China in basic research has narrowed, accelerated by staffing cuts, changes to research funding, and restrictive immigration policies
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. Arati Prabhakar, former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the administration's actions are "much more like moving us back to the Stone Age"3
.The National Science Foundation has withheld more than $1 billion in funds that Congress allocated for research over the last year
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. Trump's immigration restrictions have deterred foreign researchers from coming or staying in the US, with some being recruited specifically to China3
.To address talent concerns, the administration announced a $100 million initiative to fund American students pursuing accelerated four-year PhDs in AI and another science or engineering discipline
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. The National Science Foundation will launch a program allowing students to receive a bachelor's and PhD in six years3
.China's LineShine supercomputer currently leads the Top500 ranking with 2.2 exaFLOPS measured performance, while Oak Ridge National Laboratory's AMD-powered Discovery system won't come online until 2029
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. The Genesis Mission already had more than $5 billion behind it across fifteen agencies, but what it lacked was guaranteed access to computing resources2
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