US Department of Energy Launches Open Genesis Foundation Models Initiative

The US Department of Energy has launched the **Genesis Open Models Initiative**, allocating supercomputing resources across national laboratories to train open-weights AI models for scientific research. The project focuses on materials science, nuclear fusion physics, and genomic sequencing. All resulting model checkpoints and datasets will be released under open licenses to foster academic and industrial research collaboration.

The initiative ensures public research institutions retain access to frontier computing power as scientific AI models scale.