Reflection AI to power Genesis Mission

Open-source AI firm Reflection AI is partnering with the Department of Energy to help power the Genesis Mission, a federal scientific research initiative. The partnership is a big advancement for a company that's trying to get the U.S. to embrace open-source models. Reflection AI will serve as the AI model provider at the U.S. National Labs. The company is aiming to be the premier U.S. AI lab for the most advanced open-weight models, where the trained parameters are available to the public. The Genesis Mission is a Department of Energy initiative launched last year to accelerate scientific research through quantum computing and AI. "You can't do scientific discovery on a closed model. It would be like doing rocket science, but you only get to look at the rocket, as opposed to taking it apart and examining the engine," said Reflection AI CEO Misha Laskin.