White House launches Genesis Mission to spur AI with federal assets

The Genesis Mission initiates a new artificial intelligence experimentation platform, linking agencies with federal data to spearhead advanced AI use cases and evaluate “experimental outcomes.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday evening launching the Genesis Mission, a new initiative to build an artificial intelligence experimentation platform based on federal government datasets. The ultimate goal is to create and train AI agents and scientific foundation models to accelerate scientific progress. 

“The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation's research and development resources — combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites — to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization,” the White House release said. 

The Department of Energy will helm the initiative and draw on resources like its network of National Labs and their world-class ...