{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-15T10:09:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-24-genesis-mission-executive-order/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-24-genesis-mission-executive-order/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2025-11-24-genesis-mission-executive-order","date":"2025-11-24","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Genesis Mission executive order (EO 14363)","deck":null,"takeaway":"On Nov 24, 2025 President Trump signed Executive Order 14363, \"Launching the Genesis Mission\", described as \"a national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery\".","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"White House: Launching the Genesis Mission (executive order, Nov 24, 2025)","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"whitehouse.gov"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-15","updated":"2026-10-15","orgs":["White House","US Department of Energy","OSTP"],"title":"Trump signs EO 14363 'Launching the Genesis Mission', a national AI-for-science platform run by the Department of Energy","summary":"On Nov 24, 2025 President Trump signed Executive Order 14363, \"Launching the Genesis Mission\", described as \"a national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery\". The Department of Energy builds and runs an \"American Science and Security Platform\" that joins national-lab supercomputers, federal scientific datasets and AI models, with deadlines from 60 to 270 days. It became the umbrella for the 2026 US AI-for-science programme (278 projects in July 2026, company pledges at the October 2026 science summit).","key_facts":["Executive Order 14363, signed Nov 24, 2025 (White House)","The Secretary of Energy implements the Mission and operates the 'American Science and Security Platform'; the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (OSTP director) coordinates agencies through the National Science and Technology Council","Deadlines: list of at least 20 national science and technology challenges in 60 days; federal computing, storage and networking resources identified in 90; initial data and model assets in 120; review of robotic laboratories and production facilities for AI-directed experimentation in 240; initial operating capability for at least one challenge in 270 days, subject to appropriations","Reporting: a report to the President within one year and annually after, plus an annual update of the challenge list","Quote: 'The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets'"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["policy","us-government","white-house","ai-for-science","genesis-mission","national-labs","compute"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nThe executive order directs the Department of Energy to build one platform that links the national laboratories' supercomputers,\nfederal scientific datasets, AI models and, later, robotic laboratories, so that AI systems can be used on a set of national\nscience and technology challenges. The OSTP director coordinates the other agencies. The order sets a timetable: challenge list\n(60 days), compute inventory (90), data and model assets (120), robotic-lab review (240) and a first operating capability (270\ndays, around August 2026), \"subject to appropriations\".\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt is the legal basis of the US government's 2026 AI-for-science push: DOE's first cohort of 278 projects and more than $5B in\nfederal commitments (July 2026), and the $2.4B in company pledges at the White House \"Science: A New Golden Age\" summit\n(October 2026). Several 2026 entries mention it only in passing. This backfill entry was written from the order's text.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-10-08-white-house-golden-age-science-summit-genesis-pledges","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-08-white-house-golden-age-science-summit-genesis-pledges/","date":"2026-10-08","date_precision":"day","short_title":"White House science summit: $2.4B in AI pledges for the Genesis Mission","deck":null,"takeaway":"At its \"Science: A New Golden Age\" summit in Washington on October 8, 2026, the Trump administration announced a science package it values at over $6 billion.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":12,"official":5,"filed":"2026-10-08","updated":"2026-10-12","orgs":["White House","OSTP","Nvidia","AMD","OpenAI","Anthropic","Google","AMP"]},{"id":"2026-10-07-national-compute-100m-credits-genesis-mission","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-national-compute-100m-credits-genesis-mission/","date":"2026-10-07","date_precision":"day","short_title":"National Compute to donate $100M in compute credits to the White House's Genesis Mission","deck":"Reported by Politico on Oct 7, 2026.","takeaway":"This is a private, pooled-compute donation to a federal AI-for-science program.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":7,"official":2,"filed":"2026-10-07","updated":"2026-10-08","orgs":["National Compute","White House","OSTP","US Department of Energy"]},{"id":"2026-10-07-virtual-biology-initiative-1-8b-doe-nih-deepmind-meta","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-virtual-biology-initiative-1-8b-doe-nih-deepmind-meta/","date":"2026-10-07","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative grows to $1.8B","deck":"DOE, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta join the push for open data to build AI 'virtual cells'","takeaway":"Virtual-cell models need far more standardized perturbation data than exists.","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-08","updated":"2026-10-08","orgs":["Biohub","US Department of Energy","National Institutes of Health","Google DeepMind","Isomorphic Labs","Meta"]},{"id":"2026-07-22-genesis-mission-first-cohort-278-projects-5b","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-22-genesis-mission-first-cohort-278-projects-5b/","date":"2026-07-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Genesis Mission: 278 projects, $5B+ federal commitments","deck":null,"takeaway":"It turned the Genesis Mission from an order into funded projects, and it set the pattern that the October 2026 \"Science: A New Golden Age\" summit followed with $2.4B in company pledges.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":3,"official":2,"filed":"2026-10-15","updated":"2026-10-15","orgs":["White House","OSTP","US Department of Energy","Microsoft"]},{"id":"2025-07-23-america-ai-action-plan","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-23-america-ai-action-plan/","date":"2025-07-23","date_precision":"day","short_title":"White House releases 'America's AI Action Plan'","deck":null,"takeaway":"Defined US federal AI policy direction, prioritizing speed, energy and exports over the safety-focused approach of 2023.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["The White House"]}],"people":[{"id":"donald-trump","name":"Donald Trump","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/donald-trump/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-15","type":"filed","text":"Created (text read on whitehouse.gov)"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-15","run":null,"sources_read":"Text read on whitehouse.gov","updated":"2026-10-15","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-15"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/genesis-mission-executive-order"}