The White House said at its Oct. 8 “Science: A New Golden Age” summit that more than $6 billion will be committed by the federal government, industry, academia and philanthropy to launch a broad science initiative built around “Super Intelligence,” or SI. The administration presented the effort as one of the most ambitious science programs of this century, with SI set to be deployed across research, alongside new national missions in areas including space nuclear power and quantum computing.
In the timeline cited by the source report, the announcement was released on Oct. 8, 2026, Taipei time. The report described the move as the biggest turn in U.S. science policy since the end of World War II.
White House puts SI at the center of research policy
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the national plan is meant to carry out instructions to rebuild the U.S. research system. He said the strategy rests on three pillars: concentrating resources on Super Intelligence, restoring merit-based incentives, and restarting large-scale national science missions.
The White House framed SI as the most powerful force yet for accelerating scientific breakthroughs and placed it at the core of the broader policy package.
Tech companies commit $2.4 billion in compute and tools
To give top U.S. scientists access to advanced compute and research tools, the Genesis Mission Consortium received industry commitments totaling $2.4 billion in SI scientific tools and compute credits. The White House said those resources would support more than 15 federal agencies working on national technology challenges.
- NVIDIA: $1 billion in compute and tools credits
- AMD: $500 million
- OpenAI: $200 million
- Anthropic: $150 million
- Google: $150 million
- AMP: $100 million
- Emerald AI: $100 million
- AWS: $50 million
- Armada: $50 million
- Crusoe: $50 million
- Micron: $50 million
Local SI infrastructure programs were also announced. Georgia said its government, universities and industry would jointly invest $1 billion in scientific computing and talent training. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy added more than $100 million to support SI-driven automated laboratories and scientific instruments.
Talent policy shifts to merit-based selection
On education and workforce policy, the White House said it will replace diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, with a merit-based approach aimed at identifying and funding high-potential domestic STEM students earlier.
The initiative revives the philanthropically funded NSF Young Scholars Program, which will support students in grades 3 through 12 with exceptional math ability. DOE is also launching the Battelle-Genesis Mission high school research scholarship, allowing selected students to enter national laboratories and take part in frontier research.
For advanced academic training, the White House introduced the $100 million Genesis Mission Fellowship to support students pursuing a four-year accelerated doctoral track that combines SI and science. NSF is also rolling out a six-year integrated bachelor’s-to-PhD program intended to shorten the training cycle for top research talent.
Four frontier areas: SI, quantum, fusion and space
The White House said national resources will be refocused on four frontier fields: Super Intelligence, quantum computing, fusion and space exploration. The source report compared the scale of the effort to the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program.
In space technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and DOE plan to work together on multiple space nuclear power systems. Those plans include “Space Reactor-1,” a nuclear-powered spacecraft scheduled for launch to Mars in 2028, and “Lunar Reactor-1,” the first fission reactor planned for the lunar surface.
In quantum and biomedical research, DOE will provide $215 million for the Quantum Genesis Q competition, with the goal of building the world’s first practical fault-tolerant quantum computers. The National Institutes of Health, DOE and Biohub will also launch an $1.8 billion “virtual biology” program to build digital models that predict how cells respond to disease, with a target of doubling the pace of biomedical innovation within five years.
X-Labs Consortium gets $310 million in private backing
The White House also announced the creation of X-Labs Consortium, an independent research organization backed by $310 million in private funding. The group will use metascience methods to examine research authorization processes through data and experimentation, with the stated aim of cutting institutional friction that slows scientific innovation.
As described in the source report, the broader goal is to keep the United States in a leading global position during what the administration calls a new scientific golden age.