OpenAI commits $7M to the DOE Genesis Mission
OpenAI committed seven million dollars in direct support to the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission on July 22, 2026. The pledge includes four million dollars in Codex access for two thousand researchers at National Laboratories and universities, plus three million in API support for two large-scale scientific campaigns. Researchers who spend two point five million get up to ten million in API usage back, a four-to-one match. The two campaigns target high-temperature superconductors and an atlas mapping where AI can already drive scientific discovery.
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OpenAI just committed seven million dollars in compute to the Department of Energy Genesis Mission.
OpenAI is now backing the Genesis Mission with cash, Codex access, and API support for national labs.
The pledge: four million dollars in Codex for two thousand researchers, three million in API, and up to ten million matched.
Genesis was signed in November 2025. OpenAI already ran models on the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos. Today they scale it up.
Seventeen national labs are inside the Genesis Mission.
Two campaigns lead the work: high temperature superconductors, and an atlas mapping where AI can already drive science.
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- OpenAI committed $4M in Codex access to ~2,000 Genesis researchers, $3M in API support for two scientific campaigns, up to $10M in API usage for $2.5M spent, GPT-Rosalind bioscience access, early model access for lab leaders, and cyber capabilities for NNSA cybersecurity researchers. Announced July 22, 2026. Two campaigns: high-temperature superconductors and Atlas of the Machine-Accessible Frontier. Prior work: AI Jam Session with 9 labs (1,000+ scientists), reasoning models deployed on Venado supercomputer at LANL.(Advancing the next era of national science)
- President Trump signed the Genesis Mission executive order on November 24, 2025, creating a Department of Energy-led platform uniting national labs, supercomputers, and federal data for AI-driven science.(White House Genesis Mission, Anthropic's Claude 4.5, and OpenAI's Shopping Feature | AI Convo Cast)
- Genesis Mission involves all 17 DOE National Laboratories with goal to double U.S. research productivity and impact within a decade. Partners include OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, IBM.(Genesis Mission Deep Dive)
- White House launched Genesis Mission to open government data to AI labs; involves DOE national labs and major tech partners working to integrate AI with federal scientific data and computing.(White House Launches Genesis Mission: Opens Government Data to AI Labs & Partners)