OpenAI has announced a collaboration with U.S. national laboratories to utilize its latest AI reasoning model to drive breakthroughs in scientific research. This model will be deployed on NVIDIA's (NVDA, Financial) Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and shared among researchers from LANL, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Laboratories.
This partnership will focus on six key areas: accelerating basic scientific research to reinforce U.S. leadership in global technology, exploring new methods for disease treatment and prevention, enhancing cybersecurity to protect the U.S. power grid, and pioneering a new era in American energy leadership by harnessing natural resources and innovating energy infrastructure.
Additionally, the collaboration aims to improve U.S. security by advancing early detection of natural and man-made threats such as biological and cyber threats. Finally, the partners seek to deepen understanding of the universe, from fundamental mathematics to high-energy physics.
OpenAI emphasized the role of national laboratories in nuclear safety, and its technology aims to reduce nuclear warfare risk and ensure the safety of nuclear materials and weapons. Microsoft (MSFT) is noted as a critical partner, providing AI computational infrastructure to support OpenAI and national laboratories in building a powerful AI computing platform for scientific research.
