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.

As threats to the nation become more complex and more pressing, we need new approaches and advanced technologies to preserve America’s security,” LANL Director Thom Mason said in a statement.

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,