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Exclusive: Reflection AI to power Genesis Mission
The company is trying to get the U.S. to embrace open-source models.
TL;DR
- Reflection AI, an open-source AI firm, is partnering with the Department of Energy for the Genesis Mission.
- The company aims to be the premier U.S. AI lab for open-weight models, making trained parameters publicly available.
- The Genesis Mission uses quantum computing and AI to accelerate scientific research.
- Reflection AI CEO Misha Laskin emphasizes the need for open models for scientific discovery and customization.
- Reflection AI will provide AI models to the DOE, which will provide compute resources for the initiative.
- Reflection AI will act as the "foundational intelligence layer" for the DOE's 17 national laboratories.
- The company has previously partnered with the Pentagon for classified environments and with South Korea for a sovereign AI cloud.
- Reflection AI plans to issue a public frontier open-weight model later this year.