Google вложит $40 млн в AI-токены и кредиты для научной программы Genesis Mission

Google announced it will allocate $40 million in AI tokens and cloud credits for Genesis Mission — a U.S. government scientific initiative launched by presidential executive order on November 24, 2025 to accelerate discoveries with the help of artificial intelligence.

What is Genesis Mission

Genesis Mission is a U.S. national program run by the Department of Energy (DOE) that brings together artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and data from federal laboratories into a single research platform. The goal stated in the presidential executive order of November 24, 2025 is to multiply the productivity of American science in priority areas: fusion energy, quantum technologies, new materials, and biotechnology.

• $40 million — the volume of Google's commitment in AI tokens and cloud credits
• Genesis Mission was launched by a U.S. presidential executive order on November 24, 2025
• The program's operator is the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• DOE's national laboratories are involved in the initiative
• Scientists will get access to Gemini models and Google's computing resources

What Google's contribution provides

Google will direct $40 million not in cash but in resources: tokens for using its AI models and credits for cloud computing. According to DeepMind, researchers working under Genesis Mission will get access to the Gemini family of models, DeepMind's scientific tools, and Google Cloud infrastructure.

The "tokens and credits" format means the funds are tied to the Google platform: laboratories spend them on specific model calls and cloud resources rather than receiving a free budget. This relieves research groups of the cost of expensive inference and computation — an expense that typically eats up a significant share of scientific grants.

Why Big Tech is participating

Genesis Mission was designed from the start as a public-private partnership: the government provides laboratory data and supercomputers, while technology companies provide models and cloud. Google is not the only participant here, but $40 million is one of the largest corporate contributions at the program's launch.

For Google, this is a way to entrench Gemini and Google Cloud in the U.S. government science circuit — a segment previously dominated by specialized HPC contractors. As noted on DeepMind's blog, the company views science as one of the key application areas for AI — from predicting protein structures to modeling physical processes.

"Accelerating the frontier of scientific discovery" — that is how

DeepMind's official blog post on Google's contribution to Genesis Mission is titled.

What this means

Major AI labs are increasingly embedding themselves in government science: instead of one-off grants, Big Tech provides access to models and cloud in exchange for a presence in strategic research. Google's $40 million is a signal that competition for the U.S. scientific AI market has moved from the stage of declarations to the stage of concrete resource commitments.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Genesis Mission?

Genesis Mission is a scientific program of the U.S. Department of Energy, launched by a presidential executive order on November 24, 2025. It brings together AI, supercomputers, and data from national laboratories to accelerate research in energy, quantum technologies, and materials science.

In what form is Google allocating $40 million?

Google is providing not cash but $40 million in the form of AI tokens for using Gemini models and credits for Google Cloud computing. Scientists spend them on model calls and computing resources for their projects.