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Nvidia announced on October 8, 2026, at the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit in Washington, D.C., commitments valued at $1 billion to build out U.S. capacity for super intelligence research and development over the next five years, in fields the company described as critical for U.S. leadership, including quantum computing, healthcare and energy security. The pledge was the largest single piece of a $2.4 billion package of super-intelligence tools and compute credits that eleven industry partners committed to the Genesis Mission Consortium at the summit. At the same event, President Trump presented Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with the National Medal of Science.
The pledge is the centerpiece of the private-sector side of the summit. Nvidia said it will direct the money over five years toward advancing super intelligence for science and quantum computing across the United States — supporting the nation's higher-education research institutions, accelerating American quantum leadership, and backing cloud service providers that serve government missions. The company is also a collaborator on several of the phase 2 Genesis Mission awards announced at the event, covering quantum computing, fusion, accelerator design, and microelectronics. Nvidia framed the move as an extension of two decades of work with the national laboratories, including the Department of Energy's largest AI supercomputer for scientific discovery at Argonne National Laboratory.
Huang tied the investment directly to the president's program. "President Trump's Genesis Mission is launching a new golden age of American discovery," he said. "With a $1 billion investment, NVIDIA is putting advanced Super Intelligence in the hands of America's scientists to accelerate breakthroughs in medicine, energy and materials. This is how America turns scientific leadership into industrial leadership, and innovation into jobs and opportunity for generations." Trump returned the praise at the ceremony, calling Huang "a man whose determination laid the foundations for the explosion of Super Intelligence and put America at the front of the race."
ANI report from the White House "Science: A New Golden Age" summit.
Nvidia's commitment was the largest single piece of a $2.4 billion package of super-intelligence tools and compute credits that eleven industry partners pledged to the Genesis Mission Consortium at the summit, according to a White House fact sheet. AMD committed $500 million, OpenAI $200 million, Anthropic and Google $150 million each, AMP and Emerald AI $100 million each, and AWS, Armada, Crusoe, and Micron $50 million each. The support is aimed at more than 15 federal agencies working toward National Science and Technology Challenges. The administration says the summit as a whole represents more than $6 billion in investments spanning the federal government, industry, academia, and philanthropy, on top of a $5 billion federal commitment announced earlier.
The day also carried the administration's broader rebrand of the technology itself. Federal agencies have been directed to call it "super intelligence" — SI — rather than artificial intelligence, a shift the White House says marks a new era in which frontier systems amplify human ingenuity rather than merely imitating it. The Department of Energy separately announced $159 million for 12 new phase 2 Genesis Mission projects, including an AI-enabled digital twin for Commonwealth Fusion Systems' SPARC fusion device and rugged microchips designed for extreme environments. Markets took the news in stride: Nvidia shares, which hit a record $243 on Tuesday, traded about half a percent lower near $235 at midday Thursday amid broader weakness.