The White House has put numbers on industry support for the Genesis Mission, its federal program for AI-driven science. A fact sheet issued for the “Science: A New Golden Age” summit in Washington on 8 October 2026 says eleven companies pledged “$2.4B in SI for science tools and compute credits for the Genesis Mission Consortium.” SI is the administration’s abbreviation for super intelligence.
The per-company figures in the fact sheet add up to exactly $2.4 billion.
Who pledged what
The fact sheet lists these commitments:
| Company | Pledge |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA | $1 billion |
| AMD | $500 million |
| OpenAI | $200 million |
| Anthropic | $150 million |
| $150 million | |
| AMP | $100 million |
| Emerald AI | $100 million |
| AWS | $50 million |
| Armada | $50 million |
| Crusoe | $50 million |
| Micron | $50 million |
The White House says the pledges will support more than 15 federal agencies working on its National Science and Technology Challenges. The fact sheet notes that the mission was expanded in July to over 15 agencies with a $5 billion federal commitment.
What two of the pledges contain
Company announcements add the terms the fact sheet leaves out. NVIDIA says its $1 billion is spread over five years and covers support for university research, investments in quantum computing, and support for cloud providers that serve government missions. NVIDIA describes the amount as “commitments valued at $1 billion.”
Anthropic says its $150 million runs over three years. It plans to provide Claude, Claude Code and API credits to “several hundred Genesis Mission research projects,” to work with agencies and national laboratories on priorities including fusion energy and quantum computing, and to provide training and onboarding. It names NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation among the agencies.
The rest of the summit
The $2.4 billion is one part of a larger package. The fact sheet puts the summit’s total at “over $6 billion in investments across the Federal Government, industry, academia, and philanthropy.” Other items include a $100 million Genesis Mission Fellowship for accelerated PhDs, a $215 million quantum computing competition from the Department of Energy, and a $1.8 billion virtual biology initiative from the NIH, DOE and Biohub announced the same week.
How to read the figures
These are pledges, mostly in kind. Credits, hardware access and engineering support are valued by the companies that give them, over periods of three to five years where a period is stated. Researchers at the named agencies are the people who will see whether the access arrives; the fact sheet does not say how projects will apply for it.
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