On Dec. 14, 2023, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced that it had created the Center for AI @PNNL to coordinate the pioneering research of hundreds of scientists working on a range of projects focused on science, security and energy resilience.

As a DOE Office of Science laboratory, the primary focus of AI at PNNL is on challenges related to science. PNNL scientists don’t simply use existing artificial intelligence techniques to tackle such challenges. Its researchers are transforming the fundamentals of AI-improving or creating programs for researchers around the world.