The White House wants AI to speed up American science, and on Thursday it lined up big companies to help pay for the computing power.

Eleven tech firms pledged $2.4 billion in compute credits and AI tools to the Genesis Mission Consortium, Nextgov reported. The pledges were announced at the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit in Washington.

Nvidia made the largest commitment, $1 billion. AMD pledged $500 million and OpenAI $200 million. Anthropic and Google pledged $150 million each, AMP and Emerald AI $100 million each, and Amazon Web Services, Armada, Crusoe and Micron $50 million each, according to a White House fact sheet cited by PYMNTS.

Nvidia said its money will be spread over five years. It will support university research, quantum computing work and cloud providers that serve government, Stocktwits reported.

Government money flowed too. The Energy Department announced $159 million for new Genesis Mission project awards and $96 million for early-career researchers and a new graduate fellowship, Nextgov reported. The Pentagon set aside up to $350 million for quantum computing.

"Today marks the most transformative day for the American scientific enterprise since the reshaping of the federal research ecosystem following World War II," said Michael Kratsios, who leads the White House science office.

The Genesis Mission began in November 2025, when Trump directed the Energy Department to build one AI platform linking federal science data, national lab supercomputers and private cloud power, PYMNTS reported. The consortium formed in February. Companies were part of more of this summer's 278 team awards than any other kind of group, FedScoop reported.

Much of the pledge is in credits, not cash. That means companies are offering use of their computers and AI models rather than writing checks.

What we know: Eleven companies pledged $2.4 billion in credits and tools.
What we don't: How quickly agencies will use the credits, and what research they will fund first.