Google and DeepMind power DOE Genesis Mission with Gemini for Government
TL;DR
On December 19, 2025, Google Public Sector outlined how it will support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission using its Gemini for Government platform and tools from Google DeepMind. The company said all 17 DOE national laboratories will gain accelerated access to frontier AI tools, starting with the AI co-scientist system built on Gemini.
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Race to AGI Analysis
Genesis Mission is shaping up to be the U.S. government’s flagship testbed for AI-accelerated science, and Google just secured a front-row seat. By wiring Gemini for Government directly into the national lab system, Google isn’t just selling cloud credits—it’s embedding its frontier models into the workflows of some of the world’s most advanced scientific institutions. That gives it privileged feedback loops on how agentic systems perform on hard, real-world problems in fusion, materials, and climate.
Strategically, this is Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ‘OpenAI for Science’ initiative with DOE. Both are betting that the path to AGI runs through scientific reasoning and high-fidelity simulation, not just chat UIs. Whoever becomes the default “AI co-scientist” inside government labs will influence not only research priorities but also standards for safety, evaluation and model integration with HPC. For the broader race, Genesis is a force multiplier: it connects vast public datasets, exascale supercomputers and frontier models into one platform, accelerating the experimentation cycle that generates the data and capabilities next-generation AGI systems will be trained on.
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DOE signed nonbinding MOUs with 24 AI and compute organizations to apply advanced AI and high-performance computing to Genesis Mission scientific and energy projects.
Google Public Sector and Google DeepMind will provide Gemini-based AI platforms and tools to DOE’s Genesis Mission, giving all 17 U.S. national laboratories secure access to frontier models such as Gemini for Government and the AI co-scientist system.
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Google and Google DeepMind committed roughly $13.05 million in grants to India’s AI centers of excellence, Wadhwani AI and several Indic‑language AI startups to accelerate AI deployment in health, agriculture, education and smart cities.
DOE is allocating over $320 million to Genesis Mission AI platforms, robotics and foundational AI research to accelerate scientific discovery and maintain US technological leadership.
