Originally published at vinpatel.com What is actually inside the Department of Energy's new Genesis Open Models Initiative? Right now, the honest answer is: a name, a URL, and a lab crest. The claim, as DOE has made it by putting the initiative live at genesisopenmodels.anl.gov, is that the federal government is now in the open-model business — training or releasing AI systems the way Meta releases Llama or Mistral releases its weights, except under a federal national lab's letterhead i...