Genesis Mission: America Pours $5B Into AI for Science

Trump Administration announces first round of Genesis Mission grants worth $5B towards hundreds of AI related research projects. This is being likened by the White House to the Manhattan Project for scale and urgency. The President’s science advisor is also selling this to Congress at the same time.

If the U.S. government is going to be handing out research grants based on AI considerations, the methodology of research is bound to change. Research is funded based on what can be done with AI today. In the global AI race, this is effectively taking the contest to the level of basic research.