Trump awards top US science medals to Musk, Huang, Su and Brin, with $2.4B AI pledge
At the "Science: A New Golden Age" summit in Washington, President Trump presented the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Sergey Brin, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Michael Dell and Satya Nadella. Huang's citation credits him with turning the GPU into a general-purpose computing architecture, and the citations repeatedly use the administration's term "super intelligence" for AI, according to 36Kr. The White House also announced that 11 tech companies pledged a combined $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute for the Genesis Mission, including $1 billion from Nvidia, $500 million from AMD, $200 million from OpenAI and $150 million each from Anthropic and Google.
The US government's top science honor going to AI chip and cloud leaders, alongside a multi-billion-dollar federal AI commitment, shows how central compute is to national policy.