At a White House summit, 11 companies pledge $2.4 billion in compute credits for the Genesis Mission
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Computing power for science is becoming a shared effort of government and companies: federal programs receive the credits.
According to Nextgov, the White House announced a $6 billion package at its SI science summit; 11 technology companies pledged $2.4 billion in cloud and software credits for the Genesis Mission consortium, which supports more than 15 federal agencies. Pledges: Nvidia — $1 billion, AMD — $500 million, OpenAI — $200 million, Anthropic and Google — $150 million each, AMP and Emerald AI — $100 million each, AWS, Armada, Crusoe and Micron — $50 million each. Government funds, per the same source, include $350 million from the Pentagon for quantum computing and $159 million from the Department of Energy for second-phase projects.
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