By Andrew Richard Albanese, Editor-in-Chief
Wiley has announced that it has joined the Genesis Mission Consortium, a public-private partnership supporting the U.S. government’s Genesis Mission, a “coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery,” led by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Wiley is the only scientific publisher among the consortium’s members, which also includes companies including Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, and Advanced Micro Devices. The announcement was made in conjunction with the inaugural Genesis Mission Annual Summit, in Washington D.C. on July 22.
The Genesis Mission was created by President Trump in a November 24, 2025 Executive Order, with the goal of delivering “decisive breakthroughs to secure American energy dominance, accelerate scientific discovery, and strengthen national security.” The initiative seeks to build on the Trump administration’s previous moves in the AI space, including a January 2025 executive order, Removing Barriers to American Leadership In Artificial Intelligence, and America’s AI Action Plan released earlier in July 2025.
‘AI Based on Trusted Evidence’
In a statement, Wiley reps said the publisher, as part of the consortium, “plans to make its research intelligence tools available to researchers at all DOE national laboratories,” and will also help “shape the Consortium’s foundational knowledge layer concept,” drawing on “content and data that are already among the most frequently cited, licensed, and integrated in scientific AI applications worldwide.”
Matthew Kissner
Wiley’s AI & Data Analytics team will also participate in Genesis Mission working groups, “including those focused on how AI models are validated against scientific evidence, and how scientific data is managed.”
“The Genesis Mission is a terrific opportunity for Wiley to apply some of our early breakthrough work in AI and Data Analytics to a program of national importance,” said Wiley CEO Matthew Kissner, in a statement. ”We are proud to work alongside other members of the Genesis Mission Consortium to help ensure the AI systems shaping science are built on expert-validated workflows and grounded in our rich corpus of authoritative, peer-reviewed content. Accelerating scientific impact requires AI based on trusted evidence—that’s the principle behind Wiley’s AI platforms, workflows, and partnerships.”
Wiley’s participation in the Genesis Mission Consortium is the latest in a series of partnerships and initiatives in the AI space.
Wiley has been among the most aggressive publishers in exploring the AI space, generating more than $100 million in AI licensing revenue since 2024, as well as partnering with several AI innovators and launching several initiatives, including Wiley’s AI Gateway, billed as “an interoperable research intelligence platform to power scientific discovery.”
In January, the company announced the appointment of Armughan Rafat in the newly created role of chief AI and data services officer, an effort to accelerate Wiley’s strategic focus on “developing and commercializing AI-ready content and data products for AI developers and corporate R&D teams.”