Overview
- At a Dec. 18 White House roundtable, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and DOE science chief Darío Gil met with companies that then signed memorandums of understanding to support Genesis.
- Signatories named by the White House include OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, AMD, Intel, Oracle, Dell, HPE, Palantir, xAI, CoreWeave, Cerebras, Accenture, Groq, IBM, DrivenData, Periodic Labs, Project Prometheus, Radical AI and XPRIZE.
- The documents are MOUs rather than service contracts, formalizing intent for follow‑on agreements as specific projects take shape across DOE’s national laboratories.
- Early collaboration notes include Google DeepMind offering AI‑for‑science tools to lab researchers, OpenAI pursuing expanded model access with the labs, and AWS work with Idaho National Laboratory on AI tools.
- DOE has committed $320 million to launch foundational efforts such as the American Science Cloud and a transformational AI models consortium, aiming to link supercomputers and federal datasets into a unified research platform that leaders have likened to an 'AI Manhattan Project.'