President Trump secured $2.4 billion in computing power from Nvidia, OpenAI and other tech giants for federal research, and doubled down on calling the field “super intelligence.”
At a White House “Science: A New Golden Age” summit on Thursday, the New York Post reported, Trump announced the commitments to expand the Genesis Mission to 14 federal agencies spanning energy, health and space.
The money is meant to put advanced computing in the hands of American scientists. Trump cast the drive as a race America cannot afford to lose to China by slowing down out of fear.
Nvidia led the pack with a $1 billion pledge, the largest single commitment. AMD vowed $500 million. OpenAI put up $200 million. Anthropic and Google each pledged $150 million.
AMP and Emerald AI committed $100 million apiece. AWS, Armada, Crusoe and Micron each chipped in $50 million. Together the pledges totaled the $2.4 billion figure Trump unveiled.
Trump also presented the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday. Elon Musk looked on as the award was given.
Huang tied the company’s check directly to the administration’s preferred label. In a Thursday statement he said the investment would put the technology to work for U.S. labs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said:
"With a $1 billion investment, Nvidia is putting advanced Super Intelligence in the hands of America’s scientists to accelerate breakthroughs in medicine, energy and materials."
That language matched the White House branding campaign. Trump has pressed hard to swap “artificial intelligence” for “super intelligence,” arguing the older phrase feeds doomer talk and undercuts American progress.
On Truth Social, Trump left little room for debate over the wording. He treated the terminology fight as a loyalty test inside the broader tech race.
President Trump wrote:
"The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!"
He recently unveiled the “super intelligence” name to push back against AI doomerism and cast the technology in a better light. The greater danger, in his telling, is letting China win by choking off U.S. development.
That growth mindset collides with power politics in Washington, where Senate Democrats blocked a bipartisan bill aimed at easing electricity costs even as heavy computing loads keep rising.
The Genesis Mission itself started earlier. The Trump administration launched it in November 2025 through the Energy Department before Thursday’s expansion to the wider set of agencies.
The pledges did not arrive in a vacuum. Last week Trump hosted the nation’s most powerful tech titans at a White House AI summit. Executives from firms such as Amazon, OpenAI and Google attended. The group was collectively worth more than $1.8 trillion.
Leading voices in that world have also urged global cooperation to pace the technology’s growth. Musk, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are among those who have made that case. Trump’s Thursday message cut a different path: speed, American labs first, and no apology for the ambition.
Political momentum around the administration has stayed high on other fronts as well, with Trump’s midterm travel blitz still running at full stride while he courts industry for national projects like this one.
Computing power at this scale is not abstract. It is chips, cloud capacity and research time for federal work in medicine, energy and materials, the fields Huang named and the agencies now folded into Genesis.
Democrats, meanwhile, have kept up partisan pressure elsewhere, including moves to lay groundwork to impeach Pete Hegseth if they regain the House, even as the White House rolls out concrete industry partnerships.
Trump has also described his own posture toward rival political figures in restrained terms before, saying he held back from targeting Clinton, Biden and Obama, while still driving hard on technology and industrial policy he calls essential.
Thursday’s package mixed a medal ceremony, a nine-figure corporate scorecard and a blunt branding order. The companies wrote the checks. The White House set the terms. The scientists at 14 agencies are next in line to use the tools.
America builds faster when its best engineers and its elected leadership pull in the same direction, and when the country refuses to talk itself out of the lead.