The latest statement from the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy shows that 24 top artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, etc., have signed agreements with the U.S. government to join the "Genesis Project." The program was launched by the White House to promote the application of emerging technologies in scientific exploration and energy projects.
On the same day, industry participants, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, U.S. Department of Energy Undersecretary for Science and Genesis Program Darío Gil, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios held a meeting at the White House to launch a public-private innovation partnership in the field of artificial intelligence technology to ensure the establishment of a scalable U.S. national infrastructure, advance scientific development at an unprecedented rate, and ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence benefit the United States.
Kratsios said, "The 24 new research collaborations announced today are just the beginning. We will implement President Trump's instructions to include the entire scientific community, including businesses, universities, non-profit organizations and federal agencies, into Project Genesis."
"Using cutting-edge artificial intelligence to promote scientific research will greatly improve the productivity of American scientific researchers. The Genesis Project will help American scientists automate experimental design, accelerate simulation processes, and generate predictive models, thereby making breakthroughs in fields such as energy, manufacturing, and drug research and development," Kratsios said.
U.S. President Trump announced the plan through an executive order last month, aiming to strengthen the coordination of scientific research work among various government departments and integrate artificial intelligence tools more efficiently to achieve more scientific breakthroughs.
Kratsios said at the time that the plan would integrate computing resources at the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and use federal data sets to promote more experiments based on artificial intelligence. He predicts the move will shorten the scientific discovery cycle.
However, officials are also aware that the massive computing resources required for the development of artificial intelligence rely on energy-hungry data centers, so they are actively seeking to develop new energy sources and upgrade the power grid.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, as of Thursday, the partner institutions that signed the memorandum of agreement have expressed their intention to cooperate with the Department of Energy through information solicitation responses, or are currently working on Genesis Project-related projects with the Department of Energy and national laboratories.These 24 companies include (in alphabetical order):
Since Trump returned to the White House at the beginning of this year, he has made cultivating the artificial intelligence industry a priority and announced a number of policies aimed at simplifying the construction of artificial intelligence facilities and technology development. At the same time, the White House is moving to limit state-level regulations that it believes will burden businesses.
But critics of AI point out that the federal government has been slow to enact regulations, leaving state regulations to address pressing issues such as biased content, deepfakes and user safety risks.