Google Gives 17 U.S. National Labs $40 Million In Its Own AI Tokens
The gift arms the Genesis Mission, the White House push launched in November 2025 to double scientific discovery in a decade.
- 17 DOE national laboratories split tens of thousands of free Gemini government seats for a year.
- AlphaFold 3, AlphaGenome, AlphaEarth and WeatherNext ship alongside the seats, all Google's own tools.
- Pacific Northwest and the Rockies labs are named first users, per scientists Kvinge and Spurgeon.
Why it matters: Forty million dollars in Google's own tokens, priced by Google, buys Google a seat inside every DOE lab.
Google Cloud Blog (Genesis Mission announcement) ↗ · Jul 22, 20267/22/26