If you follow frontier models past the chat box and into real lab workflows, OpenAI's latest Genesis Mission update is the money-and-access checklist. The company is detailing how it will support the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission: Codex seats, API campaign funding, matching usage credits, and deeper national-lab collaboration.
This is for readers who care about what scientists can actually request, not another vague "AI will accelerate science" headline.
What Genesis is, in DOE's own framing
DOE describes Genesis as a national initiative that unites National Labs, industry, and academia to harness AI for energy, discovery science, and national security. Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil serves as DOE's director for the program. OpenAI's post sits inside that larger federal effort, which DOE has also used to announce large partner-commitment packages and project selections.
What OpenAI says it will deliver
OpenAI's announcement commits concrete support packages for participating Genesis researchers:
About $4 million in Codex access for roughly 2,000 Genesis researchers at National Laboratories and universities, aimed at day-to-day coding and reasoning work
$3 million in API support for two large-scale scientific campaigns that test frontier models against major scientific challenges
Matching API usage: up to $10 million in API usage for $2.5 million spent by participating researchers
Early access for selected national-laboratory leaders to models and features so labs can prep evaluations before wider rollout
