Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research.
“As threats to the nation become more complex and more pressing, we need new approaches and advanced technologies to preserve America’s security,” said laboratory director Thom Mason. “Artificial intelligence models from OpenAI will allow us to do this more successfully, while also advancing our scientific missions to solve some of the nation’s most important challenges.”
The Venado machine will be moved to a secure, classified network where it will be a shared resource for researchers from Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia national labs.
Los Alamost said that by strengthening strategic partnerships with technology companies, the Department of Energy and its national laboratories can provide transformative capabilities in science.
Los Alamos has previously collaborated with OpenAI on projects that have improved AI safety and assessed reasoning capabilities of the o1 model. OpenAI models are now used across the national laboratories for hundreds of applications, including energy missions, design of new materials and development of quantum algorithms.
“AI has sparked a new era of scientific progress,” said Jason Pruet, director of Los Alamos’ National Security AI Office. “With the capabilities from OpenAI on Venado, we have a chance to make contributions to the nation that seemed impossible just a few years ago.”
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