Trump admin to receive $100 million in compute credits for AI science initiative
Source: Business Insider ·
The credits are intended to give Genesis Mission researchers access to computing power that smaller labs and companies struggle to secure.
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President Donald Trump takes the stage at a campaign rally in the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe Trump admin is set to get $100 million in compute credits, POLITICO's Sophia Cai and Business Insider's Katie Roof report.The planned donation comes from National Compute.It's intended to give scientific researchers access to computing power that smaller labs and companies struggle to secure.National Compute, a new company that has pooled computing power from major tech companies, plans to donate $100 million worth of computing credits to the Trump administration to be used to advance scientific discovery.The credits are expected to be announced Thursday at an event with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios. They will support the administration's Genesis mission, a government-wide push to use AI to accelerate scientific discovery, according to two people familiar with the matter who were granted…