Anthropic commits $150 million to the Genesis Mission as the White House gathers $2.4 billion for science
We're deepening our commitment to scientific research and technological discovery by committing $150 million to the Genesis Mission. We'll also make Claude and our technical support available to more than 15 federal agencies.
Context
Researchers at more than 15 federal agencies get Claude and support, part of a wider push to put frontier AI into US science.
The Genesis Mission is a federal initiative to speed up scientific and technological discovery with AI, and Anthropic first partnered on it with the Department of Energy last December. Anthropic announced the new three year commitment at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. A White House fact sheet lists $2.4 billion in compute and credits from eleven industry partners, following a $5 billion federal commitment.
Deep dive
Anthropic says the $150 million over three years will make Claude available to more than 15 agencies in the Genesis Mission, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Since its first Department of Energy partnership, it says it has brought Claude to scientists across the national laboratories.
Over the three years, Anthropic says it will provide Claude, Claude Code and API credits to several hundred Genesis Mission research projects, work with agencies and national laboratories on priorities including fusion energy and quantum computing, and give scientists training, onboarding and technical support.
The White House fact sheet puts Anthropic among eleven partners pledging a combined $2.4 billion in compute and credits. It lists NVIDIA at $1 billion, AMD at $500 million, OpenAI at $200 million, Anthropic and Google at $150 million each, AMP and Emerald AI at $100 million each, and AWS, Armada, Crusoe and Micron at $50 million each. The fact sheet says this follows a $5 billion federal commitment.
Anthropic tied the pledge to other science work this year, including its Claude Science workbench, 10,000 free and discounted Claude seats for academic scientists, and a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard for AI agents operating lab instruments.
What to expect next
The pledges are spread over years, so the test is how quickly agencies get projects running and what results they publish, especially in fusion energy and quantum computing.
Watch for the first list of funded Genesis Mission projects, for how agencies handle security and data rules when using commercial models, and for whether more companies join the eleven partners. How credits are split between labs and agencies is still unclear from the public announcements.