Empowering Scientific Discovery with AI: Google’s New Commitment to the Genesis Mission
Scientists today face challenges of extraordinary magnitude and complexity. From shaping and simulating the complicated dynamics of fusion plasma, to exploring the vast search space for new materials, to explaining the exabytes of data pouring out of the world’s most advanced experimental facilities. The demands on modern research are unprecedented. Frontier AI can help address these challenges while accelerating breakthrough scientific discoveries.
In December, we shared our commitment to the White House Genesis Mission—the nationwide effort to harness AI and double the pace of American scientific discovery within a decade. Since then, Google DeepMind (GDM) announced an early access program that provides AI tools for science to all 17 Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, and Google Public Sector shared how Gemini for Government could serve as an AI backbone for the DOE.
Today, at the DOE Genesis Mission Summit 2026, we are expanding this by providing $40 million in AI tokens and cloud credits for researchers to support the Genesis mission.
Frontier AI Tools for Scientific Discovery
As part of this expanded commitment, we will initially provide DOE’s Genesis Mission awardees with in-kind contributions to GDM’s portfolio of breakthrough AI for science, including:
- AlphaEvolve – an encoding and recognition agent powered by Gemini for designing advanced algorithms.
- AlphaFold 3 – a model for predicting the structure and interactions of proteins and other biomolecules.
- AlphaGenome – a tool for understanding how variations in DNA, including the non-coding genome, influence biology and disease.
- WeatherNext – a state-of-the-art family of AI weather forecast models for mapping weather conditions.
- AlphaEarth Foundations – a foundational AI model for mapping and understanding our planet in unprecedented detail.
Second, we will provide one year of Gemini for government seats and tokens to tens of thousands of users across the operations, research, and management teams at DOE National Laboratories. This secure platform supports the full range of work from the research bench to the management of specialized user facilities serving the entire scientific community, providing a single secure foundation on which the DOE mission can rely.
AI for Scientific Tools in Use Across the Laboratory Ecosystem
While there is still much work to be done, the practical impact of the Genesis mission is already being felt across the laboratory ecosystem.
At the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), senior scientist Dr. Henry Kvinge employs AlphaEvolve to map vast mathematical systems far too complex for humans to explore by hand. AI automatically uncovers hidden connections and accelerates discoveries that would normally take researchers years to uncover.
“Modern mathematics is based on abstraction, but combinatorics provides concrete models that make complex geometry and algebra easier to understand. We have found that systems like AlphaEvolve are perfect for this search,” said Dr. Kvinge. “By leveraging the broad mathematical knowledge of LLMs, we can automate the exploration of countless perspectives. We are still experimenting, but the discoveries are already shaping our future research.”
At the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), researchers are using Gemini to fundamentally change the way they interact with physical laboratory hardware. Dr. Steven R. Spurgeon, a senior materials data scientist at NLR, is leading a groundbreaking program in autonomous materials discovery.
“Our collaboration has enabled us to build an autonomous experimental capacity,” said Dr. Spurgeon. “By using Gemini in our instruments, we have reduced microscope calibration time from over 90 minutes to about 13 minutes (eight times faster) and reduced the manual steps required to focus an image from up to 50 to two. We have given this time and attention back to science itself, enabling truly autonomous workflows that observe, reason and decide in real time. This has helped us explore parts of the materials design space that we simply would not have achieved through manual operation alone.”
Promoting American Innovation
The Genesis Mission represents an opportunity to transform research and science across America. By providing access to advanced AI tools, we aim to help scientists accelerate breakthroughs on critical energy, security and scientific challenges. To learn more about how these AI capabilities can support your research initiatives, join us at the upcoming Google Public Sector Summit in October.
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