Advancing the next era of national science
OpenAI Blog · 2026-07-22
OpenAI commits up to $17 million in API credits and Codex access to approximately 2,000 U.S. National Laboratory and university researchers through the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, targeting AI-accelerated breakthroughs in high-temperature superconductors and other national scientific priorities.
Appears in
Extraction
Topics: ai-for-sciencegovernment-ai-partnershipopenainational-laboratoriesscientific-research
Claims
- OpenAI will provide $4 million in Codex access to approximately 2,000 Genesis researchers at National Laboratories and universities.
- OpenAI commits $3 million in API support to two large-scale scientific campaigns, with up to $10 million in API usage available for $2.5 million spent.
- The two initial scientific campaigns target breakthroughs in high-temperature superconductors and the creation of an Atlas of the Machine-Accessible Frontier to identify where AI can already support meaningful scientific advances.
- Advanced reasoning models have been deployed on the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a shared resource across NNSA laboratories.
- OpenAI and Los Alamos jointly developed evaluations to study how multimodal AI can be used safely by scientists in realistic bioscience laboratory environments.
Key quotes
Frontier AI can expand that ability. It can help compress decades of scientific progress into years, strengthen the institutions behind American innovation, and give researchers new capacity to solve problems once considered out of reach.
No single company, laboratory, university, or government agency can realize this opportunity alone.