Nvidia said Thursday it will commit $1 billion over five years to advancing U.S. scientific research, announcing the pledge in a news release timed to a White House science event in Washington. Anthropic used the same gathering to commit $150 million over three years in access to its Claude models and tools for federally backed research projects.

What Happened

Both announcements came at "Science: A New Golden Age," an event hosted Thursday by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Nvidia said its commitments cover what it called super intelligence research and development in fields critical to U.S. leadership, along with quantum computing, health care and energy security. The release also lists support for the nation's higher-education research institutions, work to accelerate U.S. quantum leadership and support for cloud service providers that serve government missions.

The release does not say how the $1 billion is split among those areas, or how much of it will take the form of grants, hardware, computing time or credits.

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Nvidia tied the pledge to the Energy Department's Genesis Mission, calling itself a leading industry partner. It said it is collaborating on the program's phase two awards, which include projects in quantum computing, fusion, accelerator design and microelectronics. The company also cited new systems at Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, including what it described as DOE's largest supercomputer for scientific research, at Argonne.

CEO Jensen Huang said in the release that the effort puts "advanced Super Intelligence in the hands of America's scientists," and presented it as a way to turn scientific leadership into industrial leadership and jobs.

Anthropic said its $150 million consists of Claude, Claude Code and API credits for several hundred Genesis Mission research projects, plus training, onboarding and technical support for the scientists who use them. The company said the program will reach more than 15 federal agencies, naming NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and will concentrate on administration priorities including fusion energy and quantum computing. It described the pledge as an expansion of a Genesis Mission partnership it announced in December 2025, and said it has worked with the Energy Department to widen Claude access across the national laboratories.

Why It Matters

The Genesis Mission, launched in November 2025, is the Energy Department's push to use AI and national laboratory supercomputers to speed up scientific discovery. Commitments from chipmakers and model developers supply computing power and software that the labs and agencies would otherwise need to buy, and they tie the companies more closely to federally funded research.

The two pledges differ in kind. Anthropic spelled out that its contribution is model access and credits, with a defined three-year window and named agencies. Nvidia's figure spans a wider set of goals, from university support to cloud providers, without a breakdown. Because both are stated as the value of commitments rather than as cash grants, their real cost to the companies and their benefit to researchers will depend on details neither has fully published.

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Illustrative photo: Unsplash. Not a photograph of the reported event.

Context

Nvidia's repeated use of "super intelligence" mirrors the administration's recent recasting of federal AI language around that term. The company noted in the release that it has worked with the national laboratories for more than two decades, and its commitment builds on the Argonne and Los Alamos systems it highlighted Thursday.

What to Watch

Nvidia has yet to say how the $1 billion will be delivered or which universities, laboratories and cloud providers will receive support. The phase two Genesis Mission awards it says it is collaborating on should show which quantum, fusion, accelerator and microelectronics projects move first. Other companies may also have announced commitments at the summit; the Nvidia and Anthropic releases reviewed for this article did not detail them.