CoreWeave, Inc. (CRWV) is having quite a Thursday, with shares climbing 17.7% to $79.66 after announcing its involvement in a major government initiative. The catalyst? Joining the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a program that sounds exactly as ambitious as you'd hope something called "Genesis Mission" would be.

What's the Genesis Mission About?

The Genesis Mission brings together scientific institutions, supercomputing centers, AI platforms, and technology providers with a clear mandate: accelerate discovery science, strengthen national security, and advance U.S. energy innovation. It's the kind of public-private collaboration that Washington loves to announce and investors love to price in.

CoreWeave plans to make its purpose-built AI cloud platform available for advanced scientific workloads. The company's pitch centers on predictable performance and resilience across multi-generation hardware, which matters when research teams need to move quickly from concept to breakthrough.

This announcement builds on CoreWeave's earlier move this fall to launch CoreWeave Federal, a dedicated unit focused on delivering secure and compliant AI cloud services to U.S. government agencies and the Defense Industrial Base. Clearly, the company is making a serious push into the government sector.