National Compute, a new venture that pools computing resources from several major technology companies, plans to donate US$100 million worth of computing credits to the Trump administration to help advance scientific discovery.

Two people familiar with the matter said the computing donation will be officially announced on Thursday at an event attended by Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The computing resources will be used for the federal government's "Genesis mission," a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Currently, most of the computing power needed for frontier research is locked up in long-term contracts signed by large buyers, making it very difficult for smaller laboratories and companies to obtain computing capacity. The donation will give Genesis mission researchers access to advanced computing support.

National Compute is building what it calls the National Compute Grid, a network that aggregates computing power from multiple providers and opens it to researchers, companies and government agencies.

A draft project document compares this computing grid to the power grid or the interstate highway system, connecting previously isolated computing resources into a single shared network.

The White House declined to comment on the computing donation and the computing grid project.

The document shows that the grid will integrate computing power from multiple sources, including laboratories and cloud service providers using Nvidia and AMD processors and Google tensor processing units (TPUs).

Users can purchase computing power on demand, reserve computing resources for large projects, or connect their own computing systems; its core feature is paying based on actual computing consumption.

The document says National Compute is backed by major chipmakers, cloud service providers and infrastructure companies, as well as several universities. The company's funding comes from venture capital and institutional investors, including public investors such as universities and pension funds.

The company aims to aggregate 2 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2030 and has already secured 750 megawatts of computing power.

National Compute has launched a preview tool for grid intelligent agents, which government agencies can use to test AI models and determine whether they are safe enough to deploy. The project will likely need support from both AI laboratories and the federal government.

National Compute has launched a preview tool for grid intelligent agents, which government agencies can use to test AI models and determine whether they are safe enough to deploy. The project will likely need support from both AI laboratories and the federal government.

National Compute AI model safety testing section

National Compute has also launched the "Grid Defense" program. Government agencies can conduct safety tests on AI models before deployment through Marshall, an intelligent agent embedded in the computing grid.

Mida said each government agency can set its own testing process; testing details are kept confidential, partly to prevent frontier AI models from learning to evade evaluations. The intelligent agent coordinates the testing work and returns de-identified test results to researchers.

The government can view the full results, while AI laboratories can decide for themselves whether to release the model publicly.

Mida said: "This is a solution for scaled, continuous monitoring of the alignment capabilities of frontier models. This mechanism allows public stakeholders to conduct monitoring on demand."

After a series of major safety incidents this summer in which AI agents attacked companies and other targets at several AI laboratories, National Compute said it was precisely such incidents that gave rise to this monitoring project, and that implementation requires joint cooperation between AI laboratories and the federal government.

The document shows that the Grid Defense project began an invitation-only early beta in June for selected government agencies.

Starting this week, public-sector users with .gov or .mil email addresses, as well as teachers and students with .edu email addresses, can apply for access through a reservation system.

In addition to the US$100 million computing donation specifically for the Genesis mission, each public-sector user can receive an additional US$100 in computing credits from National Compute.