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Opinion / analysisMLOps, Tooling & Infrastructure · Hardware & Compute · Business, Funding & Industry1 source · Jul 22, 2026

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

VP for Science and Strategic Initiatives, Google DeepMind, and Chief Scientist, Google Cloud

Key points

  • Since then, Google DeepMind (GDM) announced an early access program that provides AI for science tools to all 17 Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, and Google Public Sector shared how Gemini for Government could serve as an AI backbone for the DOE.
  • Today, at the DOE Genesis Mission Summit 2026, we are expanding this by committing $40 million of AI tokens and cloud credits for researchers in support of the Genesis Mission.
  • Frontier AI tools for scientific discovery
  • Under this expanded commitment, we will first provide DOE’s Genesis Mission awardees in-kind access to GDM’s frontier AI for science portfolio, including:

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