Microsoft commits $60M to ‘Genesis Mission’ to help power Dept. of Energy’s AI-for-science push

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is putting $60 million behind the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission , a push to use artificial intelligence to speed up scientific research across the government’s 17 national labs. The company’s investment is split into two pieces: $40 million in Azure cloud computing and AI credits over three years, and $20 million for engineering and deployment help to get DOE researchers actually using the tools, Microsoft said in a blog post Wednesday.