Trump Administration Launches $5 Billion AI Science Program Across 278 Projects
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Updated · The Verge · Jul 24
Trump Administration Launches $5 Billion AI Science Program Across 278 Projects
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Jul 24
Summary
$5 billion in first-round “Genesis Mission” grants will fund 278 projects using AI to speed discovery across drug research, energy, materials and robotics.
The Energy Department said the awards—chosen from more than 5,000 applications—will link national labs, universities and industry, with Google, Microsoft and OpenAI adding compute and AI credits.
Michael Kratsios cast Genesis as part of a broader “Golden Age” agenda that shifts support toward AI, robotics and nuclear energy, gives private companies a bigger role, and moves power from institutions to individual researchers and political appointees.
Researchers said the model treats science like venture capital, risks sidelining life sciences and universities, and could weaken the human expertise needed to judge AI-generated results.
The rollout lands amid wider grant cuts and ideological fights over federal research funding, sharpening concerns that the administration is remaking—not simply expanding—the US science system.