US Department of Energy Launches Genesis Initiative for Science-Specific Open AI Models
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-08-11
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the Genesis Open Models Initiative, partnering with industry to develop foundational, open-weight AI models tailored for scientific research.
- Goal: Provide researchers, national labs, and the open science community with transparent and extensible AI models across various scientific domains.
- Status: The first model, Genesis-Science-1, is currently under development with US-based open intelligence lab Arcee.
- Call for partners: DOE is collecting information from organizations to contribute foundational systems, scientific datasets, or fine-tuning expertise.
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