The giants in action.

According to Odaily, the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced that 24 leading artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA, have signed an agreement with the U.S. government to join the 'Genesis Initiative.' This initiative, launched by the White House, aims to promote the application of emerging technologies in scientific exploration and energy projects. On the same day, industry participants, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy responsible for science and the Genesis Initiative, Darío Gil, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, held a meeting at the White House. The meeting aimed to initiate a public-private innovation partnership in the field of AI technology to ensure the establishment of scalable national infrastructure, accelerate scientific development at an unprecedented pace, and ensure that the benefits of AI reach all of America.

The 24 companies involved, listed alphabetically, are Accenture, AMD, Anthropic, Armada, Amazon AWS, Cerebras, CoreWeave, Dell, DrivenData, Google, Groq, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, Periodic Labs, Palantir, Project Prometheus, Radical AI, xAI, and XPRIZE.

Following this announcement, the stock prices of the involved companies reportedly rose by over 5%.