NSF and Nvidia Fund $152M National AI Research Initiative
The Allen Institute for AI will lead the five-year OMAI project to build open-source AI models for scientific discovery.
The OMAI Project
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and chipmaker Nvidia on Aug. 14, 2025, announced a combined $152 million investment to establish a national AI research project. The initiative, named the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI), will be led by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), a Seattle-based non-profit research institute. The five-year project is designed to create a "national asset" of open-source AI models specifically for scientific research.
The funding consists of $75 million from the NSF and $77 million in technology and support from Nvidia. Nvidia will provide its state-of-the-art HGX B300 …
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