# Governments bet on AI for science

> How are governments organising and funding AI-driven research, and what are labs delivering alongside them?

The US built the Genesis Mission on its AI Action Plan while the UK set a smaller AI for Science line; public forecasters already run AI in production. Meanwhile frontier labs are running their own discovery programmes, raising biosecurity questions.

## Stops
1. **25 Feb 2025: ECMWF puts its machine-learning weather model AIFS into operational use** (Development) An intergovernmental body puts an open AI weather model into operation. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/ecmwf-aifs-operational-2025-02/) · [source](https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2025/ecmwfs-ai-forecasts-become-operational)
2. **23 Jul 2025: AI Action Plan** (Rule) The US plan calls for investment in AI-enabled science and automated labs. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/rule/us-ai-action-plan-2025/) · [source](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf)
3. **24 Nov 2025: Trump executive order launches Genesis Mission for AI-driven science at DOE** (Development) Executive order makes AI for science a DOE-led national mission. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-genesis-mission-eo-2025-11/) · [source](https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/11/president-trump-launches-the-genesis-mission-to-accelerate-ai-for-scientific-discovery)
4. **13 Jan 2025: AI Opportunities Action Plan** (Rule) The UK's overarching AI plan that funds its science strategy. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/rule/gb-ai-opportunities-action-plan-2025/) · [source](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan)
5. **20 Nov 2025: UK publishes AI for Science Strategy with 15 actions and up to £137m** (Development) UK sets 15 actions and up to £137m for AI-driven science. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/uk-ai-for-science-strategy-2025-11/) · [source](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-for-science-strategy)
6. **22 Jul 2026: White House commits $5bn+ to Genesis Mission and selects 278 AI-for-science projects** (Development) Genesis gets $5bn+, 278 projects and industry partners. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-genesis-mission-5bn-projects-2026-07/) · [source](https://whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/07/45502)
7. **23 Sep 2026: Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA** (Development) A private lab runs agentic discovery with its own wet lab. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/anthropic-claude-art-enzyme-discovery-2026-09/) · [source](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system)
8. **30 Sep 2026: Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature** (Development) Watermarking AI-designed proteins as a biosecurity safeguard. [page](https://wheresthe.ai/d/deepmind-synthid-bio-2026-09/) · [source](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10965-y)

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