NVIDIA has committed $1 billion over the next five years to expand America's capacity for super intelligence research and development in fields it describes as critical to US leadership, including quantum computing, healthcare and energy security.

The chipmaker unveiled the pledge at the Science: A New Golden Age event in Washington, D.C., which brought together US officials, industry leaders and members of the scientific community to discuss public-private collaboration aimed at strengthening scientific exploration.

The funding will go towards supporting higher-education research institutions, investing in efforts to accelerate American leadership in quantum computing, and backing cloud service providers that serve US government mission needs.

"With a $1 billion investment, NVIDIA is putting advanced Super Intelligence in the hands of America's scientists to accelerate breakthroughs in medicine, energy and materials," said Jensen Huang, the company's founder and chief executive, who credited President Trump's Genesis Mission with "launching a new golden age of American discovery."

At the event, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy marked the expansion of the Genesis Mission, in which NVIDIA is a leading industry partner. The company is also a collaborator on several of the mission's phase 2 awards announced at the gathering, covering quantum computing, fusion, accelerator design and microelectronics.

NVIDIA has worked with US national laboratories for more than two decades. Last year it announced a Genesis Mission partnership with the Department of Energy that includes building the department's largest supercomputer for scientific research at Argonne National Laboratory, alongside support for seven new systems at Argonne and Los Alamos national laboratories.