Locator: 49738AI.
This is a huge story.
Incredibly interesting.
Biden administration: spent huge amounts of money and fought progress at every stage. Much of the money spent simply evaporated after distribution.
Trump administration: spending even larger amounts of money but being invested. Think DOD and DOE.
DOE.
Genesis Mission.
Link here. Previously mentioned. First mentioned, November 29, 2025. I'm still amazed how I picked up on that back in November. Now an update at this link.
Is this the Manhattan Project on steroids?
The United States Department of Energy announced a bunch of companies that are a part of the Genesis Mission "National Mission to Accelerate Science Through Artificial Intelligence.”
The initiative includes:
- NVIDIA
- xAI
- OpenAI
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft
- Palantir
- AMD
- Oracle
- Intel
- Anthropic
- IBM
- Accenture
- Armada
- Cerebras
- CoreWeave
- Dell
- DrivenData
- Groq
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Periodic Labs
- Project Prometheus
- Radical AI
- XPRIZE
Goal: "Genesis Mission will develop an integrated platform that connects the world's best supercomputers, experimental facilities, AI systems, and unique datasets across every major scientific domain to double the productivity and impact of American research and innovation within a decade."
1969 Moon Shot. Within a decade. JFK.
How will it be "managed"?
By DOE Under Secretary for Science, currently Dr Dario Gil.
In the early 1990s, Darío Gil spent his last high school year at Los Altos High near Palo Alto, California. He never returned to Spain.
Gil went on to get a PhD in electrical engineering and nanostructures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After graduating in 2003 he joined IBM and now, at the age of 43, he has been appointed director of the company’s vast research division, IBM Research, where he has 3,000 scientists working for him in 21 locations.
Again, Palo Alto. I am absolutely fascinated by the story of Palo Alto (Stanford, Silicon Valley). I'm currently reading the history of Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris, c. 2023.
Across the nation's 17 national laboratories. There is a very, very close association between the national laboratories and the US Navy. The US Navy's DNA is inside the national laboratories and vice versa.
I'm blocking on it now but I first came across the evolution of the national laboratories talking to my son-in-law and then picking up the subject coincidentally when talking with AI about the similarity between AI, the Manhattan Project, and the Apollo program.
If one had to come up with one concept that changed the US after WWII: the national-laboratory concept.
Dr Dario Gil: previously IBM's senior VP and Director of Research, leading their quantum and AI efforts, including making quantum computers cloud-accessible.
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AI Wrong Again
Direct quote from Jim Cramer, 8:43 a.m. CT, December 19, 2025, on CNBC:
"Pat Davis lost China."
From AI:
CMCSA
NASDAQ leader of the week.
Micron
