The US government wants your data, your model or your fine-tune — first Genesis deadline is August 14
The US Department of Energy launched the Genesis Open Models Initiative on August 7, a programme to build open-weight foundation models aimed squarely at scientific research, run through a portal hosted by Argonne National Laboratory. Universities, national laboratories, companies, scientific nonprofits and research organisations can take part in three ways: contribute an existing open-weight model, supply pretraining data such as domain corpora, benchmarks or specialised datasets, or build fine-tuned versions adapted to a particular scientific field. Pretraining contributions are due August 14, 2026 and fine-tuning proposals August 25, 2026, with further rounds expected roughly every three months. The first model in the family, Genesis-Science-1, was built with Arcee AI, a US open-model lab. The initiative sits inside the Genesis Mission, a DOE programme created by executive order in November 2025 that aims to double the productivity of American science within a decade.
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