Nvidia said Thursday it will commit $1 billion over the next five years to US research and development in fields it calls critical for American leadership, including quantum computing, healthcare and energy security, delivered through support for university research institutions, investments in quantum leadership, and backing for cloud service providers serving government missions. The announcement came at the “Science: A New Golden Age” event in Washington, DC, where the US Office of Science and Technology Policy celebrated the expansion of the Genesis Mission, the Trump administration’s initiative to accelerate scientific discovery with AI, federal supercomputers and government data.
Nvidia was the largest contributor among eleven industry partners that collectively offered $2.4 billion in compute capacity for the national research program. CEO Jensen Huang also invited the science community to collaborate in R&D using compute and what the company now calls “super intelligence” infrastructure resources. The timing carried symbolism: Huang received the National Medal of Science from President Trump the same day.
The commitment builds on two decades of Nvidia work with US national labs, most recently the seven new supercomputers it is building for Argonne, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories, including what will be the Department of Energy’s largest scientific supercomputer at Argonne, where two systems are being paired with Blackwell GPUs to deliver 2,200 exaflops of AI compute. It also fits the language politics of the moment: the company has adopted the administration’s preferred “super intelligence” term for AI, which is now spreading across the industry.