Five Tech Giants Pledge $2.4 Billion in AI Credits for US Federal Science

At the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit on Thursday, the Trump administration will announce $2.4 billion in AI credits for federal science. Five American tech companies have pledged computing power and artificial intelligence tools for the Genesis Mission, a government initiative aimed at accelerating scientific research.

Breakdown of commitments

By company:

• Nvidia — $1 billion (the largest contribution, split across university research, quantum computing, and cloud providers working with the government) • AMD — $500 million • OpenAI — $200 million • Anthropic — $150 million • Google — $150 million

Beyond the credit announcement, the summit will also feature the presentation of national awards. Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD's Lisa Su will receive the National Medal of Science; Michael Dell (Dell Technologies) will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. More than $100 million will be allocated overall for science and education.

Complications on announcement day

However, events on the day of the announcement complicate the picture. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is invited to the summit to receive an award, but just hours earlier his company was suspended from a program sponsoring foreign employees for permanent residency (EB-1C visas), alongside Adobe and six IT services firms. The reason given is suspected fraud. Capgemini also appears on the European list but was not invited to Washington.

On the same day, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published an investigation into ten AI developers. Three of them — Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic — are simultaneously Genesis Mission donors. The British regulator has opened a public consultation on managing the risks of AI agents.

The key question of capacity allocation

The central problem: it remains completely unclear how the mechanism for reserving computing power for scientists will work. Credits are not dedicated production capacity. The companies providing them simultaneously sell machine time to commercial clients at market rates. How priority will be ensured for government scientific research has been explained by neither the White House nor the donors themselves. Bloomberg noted this critical gap in its coverage of the deal.

The administration's position on AI safety

Trump has previously called concerns about AI safety a "hoax." Last week, he and a group of AI executives signed an agreement without mandatory safety guarantees: companies agreed to work with independent auditors and strengthen their own internal controls, but without strict regulatory requirements.

Genesis Mission is not a new initiative. Last July, this publication reported that it was already backed by funding from fifteen government agencies. However, the mission still has no guaranteed place in line for access to computing power, which remains a serious gap.