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Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, discussed the Trump administration's $2.4 billion superintelligence initiative, announced last Thursday, which provides compute credits to American scientists for breakthroughs in health care, science, and chemistry. He emphasized the importance of private sector commitments, including $1 billion from NVIDIA, $500 million from AMD, $200 million from OpenAI, and $150 million each from Anthropic and Google. Kratsios highlighted the ratepayer protection pledge to protect communities hosting data centers, and stressed local decision-making. He addressed workforce development, citing Carnegie Mellon's new Miami campus and the revitalized Young Scholars Program at the National Science Foundation for K-12 training. He praised Meta's program paying people to attend school and guaranteeing jobs. On cybersecurity, he said the Superintelligence Task Force prioritizes monitoring national security threats and ensuring products are cyber secure. He defended regulatory structures and the Presidential A.I. Challenge to build public trust.
Key takeaways
The administration announced $2.4 billion in compute credits for American scientists to advance superintelligence research.
Private sector commitments include $1 billion from NVIDIA, $500 million from AMD, $200 million from OpenAI, and $150 million each from Anthropic and Google.
The Young Scholars Program at the National Science Foundation is being revitalized to train K-12 students in science and math.
The Superintelligence Task Force will focus on monitoring national security threats and ensuring cyber secure products.
3:07How short are we on the pipeline of workers when it comes to A.I.?
4:20How are you bringing in the trade companies and trade organizations and associations to make sure that those people don't continue to be left behind?
It is all about winning the race for superintelligence. Now the White House is pouring billions into the golden age of science, plus rebranding the Presidential A.I. Challenge for students to the S.I. Challenge. Now, the Trump administration is announcing $2.4 billion in superintelligence initiatives, including scientific tools and computing credits. Of course, all this brings together 11 industry partners to help tackle national science and technology challenges. NVIDIA committing a billion, AMD $500 million, OpenAI $200 million, and Anthropic and Google at $150 million each. Here's the President on why he changed the name.
This is extreme intelligence. It's superior intelligence, it's supreme, also, intelligence. But the word 'super' is the best word of all, and it's the simplest. So we're going to be naming it S.I., superintelligence.
Joining me now is White House Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios. Thank you so much for joining us. We were talking about pulling in all of that private sector money. How important is it to get that private sector money, get them involved?
It's very critical. I think what's so special and unique about America's innovation ecosystem is that it has all these different parts. It has the government that funds basic research, it has the private sector, it has academic institutions which do work. And what we were able to do last Thursday was to bring the entire ecosystem together, only in a way like President Trump could, to get them to commit to ensure we continue to lead in superintelligence. This commitment was massive. We provided $2.4 billion worth of compute credits to American scientists so they can make the breakthroughs in things like health care, science and chemistry. It's pretty incredible.
Energy has been something that the President's been laser-focused on for the entire duration of his term. He understands it's a key component in driving this superintelligence revolution. He was able to bring together all of the data center providers and tech companies to sign on to what was known as the ratepayer protection pledge, and they got them to commit to ensure that communities where these data centers are built are obviously protected and the folks get what they're ultimately looking for.
Yeah, I think as the President said, and I totally agree, these are decisions that should be made by individual communities. A lot of voters want them and a lot of the benefits that come along with them, and others may not want them. Those are the types of local decisions that should be made. But at the same time, the tech companies should be able to provide great benefits to those communities.
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Kratsios, M. (2026, October 14). BETTING BIG: White House looks to TRAIN the next gen on 'super intelligence' [Interview transcript]. Fox Business. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3058388/
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Michael Kratsios. "BETTING BIG: White House looks to TRAIN the next gen on 'super intelligence'." Fox Business, 14 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3058388/.
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