Trump is in a hurry and launches a new "Manhattan Project": The whole nation is making efforts on AGI.
[Introduction] The Trump administration has launched the "Genesis Mission," elevating the AI competition to the level of the "Manhattan Project." It even spares no effort to use federal power to sue local regulators, vowing to remove all "speed bumps" hindering the rapid development of computing power. From lifting the ban on chip exports to Saudi Arabia in exchange for funds to facilitating the partnership between OpenAI and Foxconn to reshape domestic manufacturing, a huge "AI - military - industrial complex" is accelerating its formation under the will of the White House. This is no longer just a technological iteration but a hegemony defense war in which the United States is staking its national fortune under the logic of "speed is justice."
On the morning of this Monday, the air in the White House was filled with a long - lost tension and excitement similar to that during the Cold War.
If physicists in the last century opened the door to the atomic bomb in the desert of Los Alamos, today, the US government is trying to replicate that historic moment in the data centers of Silicon Valley.
An executive order codenamed "Genesis Mission" that Trump is about to sign has completely torn off the veil of so - called "business competition."
According to Carl Coe, the chief of staff of the Department of Energy, who revealed at the Energy Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, the current administration has directly compared the strategic height of the AI competition to the "Manhattan Project" or the US - Soviet space race.
This is the national will for computing power hegemony.
"Genesis": The Roar of the State Machine
The "Genesis Mission" is not just a sensational code name.
Its core logic is very crude and direct: concentrate efforts to accomplish major tasks and remove all obstacles.
The most eye - catching part of the order is to instruct US national laboratories - those scientific research holy places that once gave birth to nuclear weapons and the prototype of the Internet - to fully shift to AI technology research and development.
But that's not enough. The Trump administration obviously believes that the existing federal system is dragging down the development of AI.
Therefore, this strategy also includes a sharp legal dagger: the Department of Justice will be authorized to sue state governments that have formulated "unconstitutional" AI regulations.
For those states that try to restrict the development of AI through cumbersome security tests, copyright reviews, or in the name of "ethics" - what Trump calls "one woke state" - the federal government will wield the big stick of cutting funds.
This is actually a declaration of war against legislators in places like California.
California's attempt to impose a safety brake on AI models through the SB 1047 bill has caused a huge shock in Silicon Valley.
SB 1047
In the blueprint of "Genesis," the United States cannot tolerate 50 sets of approval processes in 50 states.
As Trump said, that regulatory jigsaw puzzle is simply a "disaster" that will directly derail businesses.
Behind this radical stance stand the figures of tech giants like Jensen Huang.
In order to win this competition that Trump calls a "must - win," the United States is removing every speed bump in its own backyard.
The Computing Power Covenant in the Desert
If domestic policies are to "unleash" AI, then diplomatic actions are to "infuse blood" into AI.
This week, the White House welcomed a special guest: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia.
In a series of high - level meetings on defense and the economy, AI became the absolute protagonist.
As part of the deal, Trump promised to approve the sale of the most advanced AI chips to Saudi Arabia, which actually lifted some of the restrictions on high - end computing power exports to the Middle East during the Biden era.
Capital always has the keenest sense.
During the meeting, NVIDIA and xAI under Elon Musk announced that they would cooperate with Humain, an AI venture capital institution supported by Saudi Arabia, to jointly establish a huge data center.
Humain
Trump's statement at the Saudi investment conference was full of ambition: "We will work with our partners to build the largest, most powerful, and most innovative AI ecosystem in the world."
This is not only a technological output but also an exchange of energy and capital.
Training the next - generation AI models requires an astronomical amount of electricity, and Saudi Arabia has abundant energy ambitions and substantial petrodollars; while the United States has the most advanced chips and algorithms.
This is a high - stakes gamble where each side gets what it needs.
The United States has exchanged technology for the liquidity and energy support needed to maintain its hegemony.
Attempting to Revitalize the Rust Belt: The Handshake between OpenAI and Foxconn
While the White House is dealing with top - level design and geopolitics, the giant wheels of the industrial circle are also quietly turning.
In this era of rapid development of AI, people often focus on the illusory code but ignore the "bones" and "blood vessels" that support these codes.
A major cooperation just announced by OpenAI and Foxconn has pulled our attention back from the cloud to the ground.
The two sides will jointly design and manufacture next - generation AI infrastructure hardware at Foxconn's US factories in Wisconsin and other places.
This is not just about buying and selling a few servers.
Altman described it as "a generational opportunity for American re - industrialization."
With the exponential growth of model parameters, the existing data center architecture is overburdened.
OpenAI needs a brand - new physical infrastructure - from server racks that can bear extremely high heat density to complex liquid - cooling systems, and then to special cables that can transmit massive amounts of data instantaneously.
Liu Young - way, the chairman of Foxconn, obviously seized this opportunity.
As the world's largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn is transforming itself from the "king of OEM" to the "AI infrastructure powerhouse."
According to the agreement, they will not only manufacture hardware but also jointly design the future data center architecture with OpenAI.
This cooperation resonates with the spiritual core of Trump's "Genesis Mission" - the localization of the supply chain.
For a long time, the technological advantage of the United States has been based on the division of labor of "designed in the United States, manufactured in Asia."
But in the AI era, this model is considered full of risks.
The partnership between OpenAI and Foxconn aims to build a resilient supply chain entirely within the United States.
From chips to racks, from coolants to power modules, the United States is trying to firmly grasp the control of the physical layer of AI.
The Shadow of the Department of Energy and Supercomputers
Behind all this is the shadow of the US Department of Energy (DOE).
In the AI policy blueprint previously released by Trump, the Department of Energy was given a very high strategic position.
This is not only because nuclear weapon laboratories are under its jurisdiction but also because the future AI competition is essentially an energy competition.
According to the blueprint, the United States will establish a "cloud - based automated laboratory" to use AI to accelerate all - around research from materials science to biology.
NVIDIA just announced its partnership with the Department of Energy last month and plans to develop seven supercomputers equipped with the latest AI chips in federal research facilities.
When OpenAI is designing more efficient hardware, when NVIDIA is deploying more powerful computing power, when the White House is clearing legal obstacles, and when Saudi funds are pouring in continuously, what we see is a huge "AI - military - industrial complex" taking shape.
From the White House to Saudi Arabia, from the code repositories in Silicon Valley to the factory assembly lines in Wisconsin, a huge net is tightening.
In this new era, since the fear of falling behind outweighs the concern about risks, "speed" has become the only moral standard.
The United States is mobilizing the entire nation's strength, trying to build high walls in both the physical world and the digital world with a nearly crude "brute - force aesthetics."
This may be the most spectacular high - stakes gamble in human history.
What we are witnessing is a superpower trying to force its way into the narrow door to the future by reshaping the supply chain of silicon and steel.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes amazingly;
We have replaced the fear of atomic fission with the ambition of intelligent fusion and embarked on a highway without speed limit signs. In this wild rush of "Genesis," the greatest sin is not making mistakes but being the second - place finisher.
References:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/trump-plans-to-unveil-genesis-mission-to-boost-ai-development
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf
https://openai.com/index/openai-and-foxconn-collaborate/
This article is from the WeChat official account "New Intelligence Yuan." Editor: Allen. Republished by 36Kr with authorization.