The Department of Energy is gearing up to create a new class of science-specific, open-weight AI models in collaboration with industry as part of its recently launched Genesis Open Models Initiative. “These Genesis models aim to provide researchers, national laboratories, industry partners, and the broader open science community with powerful, transparent, and extensible AI models that can be adapted to a wide range of scientific domains and use cases,” the Energy Department said in its overview of the initiative. “By releasing models with open-weights, DOE seeks to galvanize the scientific and AI communities around shared infrastructure for science.” “Genesis-Science-1 puts that idea to work: an open model trained on the real work of the national laboratories and answerable to the scientists who do it.” The Genesis Open Models Initiative is the newest branch to grow from the ever-expanding Genesis Mission.