Overview
- President Trump’s November 24 executive order directs the Department of Energy to stand up a national platform that links federal scientific datasets with lab supercomputers for AI-driven research.
- The plan, called the Genesis Mission, names more than 50 collaborators across tech and quantum firms and aims to accelerate breakthroughs from fusion and materials to medicine.
- DOE must, within 60 days, inventory federal compute and data, identify 20 candidate research challenges, and show a working capability on one challenge within nine months.
- Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and SLAC join the effort, with LLNL’s Brian Spears serving as technical director to help design the integrated AI platform.
- The White House provided no cost estimate, access and security arrangements are still to be defined, and some researchers question whether general AI agents can deliver truly novel scientific insights.