At a listening session, government contracting experts and AI companies said the revised rule is too vague and doesn’t follow current commercial contracting standards.

A White House list of 13 appointees includes leaders from Google, Nvidia, Meta, Dell, Oracle, and Andreessen Horowitz.

DOE will receive computing power as soon as next week, Secretary Chris Wright said.

The National Science Foundation and the chip maker are together contributing roughly $150 million to back the science-driven open model project.

The system involves a contract with Dell and will use next-generation NVIDIA technology set to go on sale next year.

Only some of the 16 companies explicitly said they’d stick to the AI pledges made to the current administration.

The department's top AI official said the new strategic plan is in development now and should be issued in January.

The pilot brings together research resources from multiple federal and industry partners and will serve as a “proof of concept” for the full-scale project, according to NSF.

Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability join the initial seven firms who signed on to the commitment in July.