he US Department of Energy enlisted the support of 24 organizations, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, for its Genesis Mission, an effort to accelerate science, national security, and energy innovation through AI.

The Trump Administration unveiled the Genesis Mission in late November, likening it to a Manhattan Project for AI. The big names involved seem to signal that all hands are on deck in helping the US outpace China in the global AI arms race.

The past few weeks have been busy for Trump’s AI team:

• The president issued an executive order to limit states’ oversight of AI.
• The administration has been touting its “Tech Force,” an “elite corps of top engineering talent building the future of American government technology.”
• Pete Hegseth’s Department of War rolled out a US military chatbot.

The Genesis Mission initiative builds on the Trump administration’s AI action plan, which called on the DoE, along with other organizations, to monitor the national security implications of frontier models. Involved organizations are expected to contribute in a variety of ways, with Nvidia and Oracle chipping in compute, Microsoft and Google giving cloud infrastructure and AI tools, OpenAI deploying frontier models for scientific research, and Anthropic developing Claude-based tech for national labs.