Trump Launches Genesis Mission to Build National AI Platform for Scientific Advancement
Key Points
- President Trump issues executive order to launch the Genesis Mission, an AI‑driven scientific initiative.
- DOE will build a centralized platform aggregating federal, academic, and private data sets.
- The platform connects two sovereign AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge, built by HP and powered by AMD chips.
- Under Secretary Darío Gil leads the mission, with a four‑month deadline to identify initial data assets.
- An operational demo for at least one national challenge must be shown within nine months.
- Focus areas include nuclear/fusion energy, grid modernization, long‑term scientific discovery, and AI for national security.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order establishing the Genesis Mission, an initiative led by the Department of Energy to create a centralized artificial‑intelligence platform. The platform will aggregate decades‑long federal, academic, and private‑sector data sets for training scientific foundation models, automating research workflows, and accelerating breakthroughs. It will link the nation’s most advanced supercomputers, AI systems, quantum resources, and scientific instruments, including two sovereign AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory built by Hewlett Packard Enterprises and powered by AMD chips. Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil directs the effort, which must identify initial data assets within four months and demonstrate operating capability for at least one national challenge within nine months, focusing on nuclear and fusion energy, grid modernization, and advanced AI for national‑security applications.
Genesis Mission Overview
President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that launches the “Genesis Mission,” an artificial‑intelligence‑focused initiative overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The mission’s stated purpose is to harness the current AI and advanced‑computing revolution to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.
Centralized Data Platform
The core of the Genesis Mission is a centralized platform intended to house an extensive collection of data sets gathered over decades of federal investment, as well as data contributed by academic institutions and private‑sector partners. These data sets will be used to train scientific foundation models, create AI agents, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs across multiple domains.
Integration of National Computing Assets
The platform will connect the nation’s most powerful supercomputers, AI systems, next‑generation quantum systems, and cutting‑edge scientific instruments. Specifically, it will be linked to two sovereign AI supercomputers being built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the DOE’s flagship research and development center. Hewlett Packard Enterprises is constructing the machines, which will be powered by AMD chips. The supercomputers are designed to address major challenges in energy, medicine, health, and national security.
Leadership and Timeline
Dr. Darío Gil, the DOE Under Secretary for Science, serves as the Genesis Mission Director. The DOE has a tight schedule: within four months it must identify its initial set of data and model assets for the platform, and within nine months it must demonstrate an initial operating capability for at least one of the national science and technology challenges identified by the administration.
Strategic Focus Areas
The Genesis Mission will concentrate on three key challenge areas:
- Accelerating nuclear and fusion energy research while modernizing the national energy grid through AI‑driven solutions.
- Powering scientific discoveries that will sustain innovation for decades to come.
- Developing advanced AI technologies for national‑security purposes, including systems that ensure the reliability of America’s nuclear weapons and accelerate the development of defense‑related materials.
By integrating massive data resources with the nation’s most advanced computing infrastructure, the Genesis Mission aims to create a closed‑loop system that functions as a scientific instrument for the ages, dramatically increasing research and development productivity and tackling problems previously thought unsolvable.