Mission Genesis -- Some Thoughts.

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Trump's Genesis Mission is tracked at a tab at the top of the page.  

From an earlier post? Link here. What might be the most important "reason" for Trump's "Genesis Mission." What was he thinking? The fact that Palantir was on the list speaks volumes.

 

It all comes down to national security (and money/investing, of course). National security:

• defense (shooting war)
• tech (cold war) 

The two most glaring omissions from Mission Genesis?

• Apple
• SpaceX 
• both Grok and xAI made the list 

Apple: its an consumer electronics company; not national security; and, Apple is going its own way.

SpaceX: 1,000% tied up in national defense and tech, but it's the silent partner for Mission Genesis -- SpaceX / US government = hand / glove. 

 

Another interesting absence: Broadcom.

Most interesting name on the Mission Genesis list: Nokia. 

 

AI prompt:  Nokia made Trump's "Mission Genesis" list. There is more than enough tech on that list that Nokia didn't seem necessary. Most glaring omission from the "Mission Genesis" list: Broadcom. What is  Nokia bringing to the table; why is Nokia on the list and why did Broadcom not make the list, or Qualcom for that matter, also? Was there too much overlap among all the other chip companies on that list to add Qualcomm and Broadcom?  The only place I see Nokia is somehow in the same arena as Cisco, but that seems a stretch. Thoughts? 

 

Note: Nokia does not show up on the official Trump Mission Genesis list but does show up on other lists associated with Mission Genesis. Perhaps Trump saw Nokia as a foreign company and was not aware of the company's impact "on big research."

 

Why Broadcom and Qualcomm are ot on the list:  
Genesis' initial public partner list isn't primarily about consumer or modern silicon;
the program's public MOUs are tied to AI research platforms, cloud/compute ecosystem infrastructure -- domains where Nokia, AMD, Nvidia, AWS, etc, are core players.

 

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Nokia

 

What is the relationship between Nokia and Bell Labs and what was the genesis of that relationship?

Bell Labs, originally founded in January 1925 as Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., was established through a shared ownership between AT&T and Western Electric to consolidate research in telecommunications. It operated as the research arm of the Bell System until the 1984 breakup of AT&T, after which it became a subsidiary of AT&T Technologies. In 1996, AT&T spun off much of Bell Labs into Lucent Technologies. Lucent then merged with Alcatel in 2006 to form Alcatel-Lucent.

Nokia's relationship with Bell Labs began in 2016 when Nokia acquired Alcatel-Lucent for approximately $16.6 billion, integrating Bell Labs as a subsidiary and rebranding it as Nokia Bell Labs. Today, Nokia owns and operates Nokia Bell Labs, which continues its legacy of innovation in areas like telecommunications, AI, and quantum computing, with headquarters in New Jersey. 

At this point, think ARPANET and DARPA:

With the close relationship between DARPA and Trump's Genesis Mission, why was the latter given to DOE and not DOD (DARPA)? 

When you think back to whom Joe Biden had for his Secretary, DOE, it is just amazing how clueless that administration was -- at almost every level. It was 1000% political as would be expected from someone who spent his entire life (not just career, but his entire live, his entire calling, his entire being) within the political universe. 

Back to the Genesis Mission: ChatGPT provides a lengthy discussion why Broadcom and Qualcomm were not included but ChatGPT's argument fails.

ChatGPT also explains why companies like ATT and Verizon were not included but yet the list does include Cisco, Dell, and Oracle. 

For a "clean" Genesis Mission list, several named corporations need(ed) to be removed, but my hunch is that Trump had strong personal relationships with some of them -- Larry Ellison and Oracle come to mind.