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The headquarters for the US Department of Energy at Federal Office Building 5, now known as the James V. Forrestal Building on May 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Energy Department wants to create science-specific AI models

The agency is collecting information from interested organizations that could provide foundational open-weight systems, scientific datasets for pretraining or fine-tuning expertise.

2 hours ago By Lindsey Wilkinson