US starts Genesis Mission to speed up fusion, semiconductors and security tech
The United States has launched the Genesis Mission, a national AI first effort to speed up scientific discovery using supercomputers, frontier AI models, and decades of federal datasets. The Department of Energy will lead the programme with support from Nvidia, Anthropic, and 17 national labs. The mission focuses on energy, discovery science and national security research.
New Delhi: America has opened a new chapter in its AI ambitions with the launch of the Genesis Mission, a sweeping national initiative aimed at accelerating scientific discovery through artificial intelligence. Announced through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on November 24, the mission places the US Department of Energy at the centre of a massive push to rebuild the country’s scientific infrastructure around AI driven research.
The US is now positioning AI as the backbone of its next scientific and national security era, much like how the space race once defined its technological identity.
What the Genesis Mission aims to do
The mission’s goal is direct. Washington wants to merge decades of scientific data, the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and the expertise of 17 national laboratories into one AI powered research system. This integrated platform will train scientific foundation models, run AI agents, automate experiments, and generate discoveries at speeds traditional research cannot match.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright described the mission as a historic moment for American science. "Under President Trump’s leadership, the Genesis Mission will unleash the full power of our National Laboratories, supercomputers, and dataresources to ensure that America is the global leader in artificial intelligence and to usher in a new golden era of American discovery,” he said.
The Department of Energy says nearly 40,000 scientists, engineers, and technical staff will be mobilised. The mission will also involve industry and academic partners. Nvidia confirmed its participation, posting that the effort will connect "America’s leading supercomputers, AI systems, and next-generation quantum machines into the most complex scientific instrument ever built accelerating breakthroughs in energy, discovery, and national security.” Anthropic added that it will support "American energy dominance as well as advance and accelerate scientific productivity.”
The AI platform at the core of the mission
A new national computing system called the American Science and Security Platform will drive the initiative. According to the executive order, this platform will bring together:
Large scale supercomputing resources Secure cloud based AI compute AI modelling and analysis frameworks Foundation models for multiple scientific domains Decades of US government scientific datasets Robotic experimentation systems
Federal officials say the platform will operate as a closed loop AI environment. It will run millions of simulations, test new materials, accelerate nuclear fusion research, and automate laboratory work. Dr Darío Gil, who has been appointed director of the Genesis Mission, described it as an unprecedented tool. "We are linking the nation’s most advanced facilities, data, and computing into one closed-loop system to create a scientific instrument for the ages, an engine for discovery that doubles R&D productivity and solves challenges once thought impossible,” he said.
Key priorities set by Washington
The Genesis Mission will initially focus on three sectors. These include:
Energy technologies such as fusion, advanced nuclear systems, and modernised energy grids Discovery science across fields like semiconductors, quantum computing, biotech, and materials National security systems that monitor the nuclear stockpile and build defence ready materials
The National Nuclear Security Administration, which will play a major role, said the initiative strengthens America’s strategic edge. Administrator Brandon Williams called it "the next great chapter and an unparallelled opportunity for America’s scientific and national security leadership.”
Why it matters beyond the US
The mission signals a shift in how major economies plan scientific research. Instead of funding independent labs and projects, the US is consolidating compute, data, and talent into a national AI first structure. For India and other countries designing sovereign AI strategies, the Genesis Mission sets a new benchmark for what national scale scientific AI infrastructure could look like.
The Department of Energy has four months to select its first batch of datasets and nine months to demonstrate early results. If the initiative delivers even part of its promise, the Genesis Mission could reshape global expectations around AI driven science and national competitiveness.