Genesis Mission Platform Demo—Genesis Mission Summit 2026

U.S. Department of Energy
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Jul 28, 2026
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AI GeneratedThe Genesis Mission Platform is a unified AI ecosystem for American science, providing a single sign-on for access to supercomputers, cloud services, and frontier models. It streamlines scientific research by integrating general LLMs, specialized foundation models, and automated laboratory tools into a cohesive workflow to accelerate discovery from hypothesis to physical measurement.
The Genesis Mission Platform is a single place
for the AI services of American science.
One door, one identity,
and everything the mission is building waiting behind it.
It starts with a single sign-on.
One federated identity will carry you
from national laboratory supercomputers
to commercial cloud,
from scientific data facilities
to the Department of Energy user facilities.
Behind that login is the Model Access Gateway,
a unified portal for frontier model access.
Pick your model, generate a key, and you are working.
No separate account for every provider.
No waiting on procurement.
What used to take you weeks of setup
now takes you a couple of minutes.
The gateway speaks the same language
as the tools you already use.
Commercial assistance from our industry partners
connect straight through it.
Point the tool at the gateway,
drop in your key,
configure your AI coding agent,
and frontier models are working
inside your research environment.
Then, just ask.
Here, we ask for 10 initial electrolyte candidates
for a next generation battery.
Seconds later, we have a starting set
with the reasoning laid out where we can inspect it.
Rapid access to large language models
for coding and for scientific investigation on day one.
That is a general model doing general work.
We can do more than that.
So as you build your own AI tools,
you connect them to the ecosystem
using open protocols like MCP and A2A.
A few lines of configuration
and your assistant can reach any tool on the platform.
Here, we add two of them.
The first is a library of agents
developed inside the Department of Energy
that generates scientific hypotheses
and step-by-step plans to test them.
The second is MIST, a Materials Foundation model
developed by our academic collaborators
at the University of Michigan.
Now watch what the assistant does with them.
It calls a hypothesis agent
to propose electrolyte candidates
and to lay out how each one should be evaluated.
It hands those candidates to MIST,
which scores their properties.
It brings the scores back,
then writes the summary, the figures,
and the report.
These pieces work together
because they sit on the same platform
and speak the same protocol.
The result is a complex scientific workflow
that's greater than the sum of its parts.
That is the whole idea.
Every tool a laboratory or a university
brings to the platform
unlocks the scientific power of the national labs
and of American academia for everyone else on it.
The tools are not only models.
With simulation agents and MCP tools
developed inside the DOE,
the platform doesn't just reason about science,
it runs it.
Here, an agent takes on inertial confinement fusion,
dispatching a full suite of simulations
across leadership class systems.
The runs land, and with one request,
the agent reads its own results,
writes a plan for the analysis,
rendering the figures that make the physics legible.
Writing the code to automate the processing
and turns to the visuals.
You ask a question, you get a campaign,
and the tools can reach past the machine room.
With DOE-developed MCP tools for robotics operation,
the same assistant drives instruments
in an automated laboratory.
Here, it moves a sample and runs the test.
A hypothesis that started as a line of text
ends as a measurement on a bench.
Take it further still,
and you see what the platform makes possible,
the discovery engine.
Where you describe the science you need,
and intelligent agents find the data,
the models, the instruments, and the compute,
then compose the entire campaign.
Every action verified, every result traced,
and flowing back into a living body
of scientific knowledge that is ready
for the next researcher and the next agent.
This is not a distant vision.
The platform is beginning to accept users,
the tools are landing,
and the door is open to researchers,
to universities, to industry,
and to our partner agencies across the federal government.
Your missions, your data, and your science belong here too.
Bring them.
The mission has begun.
Genesis Mission Platform, built together,
discovering faster.
