Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research

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Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britain’s regulator named three of the five donors that morning.

Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B to federal science. Nvidia is giving $1B, AMD $500M, OpenAI $200M, and Anthropic and Google $150M each. The money takes the form of AI tools and compute credits for the Genesis Mission.

Trump announces it on Thursday at a Washington summit called Science: A New Golden Age, which also carries more than $100M for science and engineering education. Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin and Lisa Su receive the National Medal of Science there, and Michael Dell the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Bloomberg reported.

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