OpenAI will put its models on a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and make them available to researchers at other U.S. national laboratories under a deal with the government announced Thursday.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI is collaborating with the U.S. National Laboratories to boost their scientific research using the company's latest AI reasoning models. Under the agreement, OpenAI will work with Microsoft and will deploy o1 or another o-series AI model on Venado,

OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects.