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Trump Unveils $2.4 Billion in Silicon Valley AI Pledges to Boost Scientific Research
- •President Donald Trump is set to announce $2.4 billion in commitments from major tech companies like Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google at a Washington summit.
- •The donations will provide AI tools and compute credits for the administration's Genesis mission to support research across more than 15 federal agencies.
- •The summit coincides with tensions over immigration after the administration suspended several tech companies, including Microsoft, from a visa program over alleged fraud.
- •Trump will honor prominent tech leaders such as Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, Lisa Su, and Michael Dell with prestigious national medals.
- •The administration continues to push for a light regulatory touch on artificial intelligence to maintain the US competitive edge against China.
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Silicon Valley companies committed $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits for the Genesis mission, including $1 billion from Nvidia Corp., $500 million from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., $200 million from OpenAI, and $150 million each from Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
The Trump administration suspended Microsoft Corp. and several other companies—including Adobe Inc., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Infosys Ltd., Tata, Wipro Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., and Capgemini SE—from a visa program, alleging fraud and misuse of the program for foreign workers.
The Super Intelligence Force is led by Director of National Intelligence H Jay Clayton, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael, and Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor.
