Statement on the “Go Fast, Go Big” Proposal

Washington, D.C. — The Partnership for AI Infrastructure fully endorses the “Go Fast, Go Big” proposal as a pivotal investment in national security and technological leadership. In response to rapidly escalating AI capabilities by geopolitical rivals, the “Go Fast, Go Big” proposal calls for a $10 billion investment to establish Defense AI Factories, a national initiative to claim and secure American leadership in Artificial Intelligence for defense and scientific discovery.   

“Go Fast, Go Big” is built around a three-phase strategy: 

Phase 1: Go Fast ($1.725B) would utilize existing Department of Energy (DOE) infrastructure to deploy advanced GPU clusters and develop specialized AI models addressing nuclear deterrence and counter-proliferation. It would also include efforts to transform scientific and classified data into AI-ready formats to accelerate training and deployment. 

Phase 2: Go Big ($8.275B) aims to expand U.S. computational capabilities across DOE laboratories, building a leadership-scale AI ecosystem powered by over 100,000 GPUs. This phase would support both classified missions and open science, while fostering public-private collaboration through shared-use facilities. 

Phase 3 would seek to attract $100 billion in private investment to scale AI capabilities nationally, targeting industrial and commercial applications. 

 This strategic initiative presents a critical opportunity for the United States to maintain technological superiority, promote interoperability, and ensure long-term national security through U.S. leadership, advanced infrastructure, and innovation.  

More information on the proposal can be found here. 

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Full release can be found here.