Here are five things to know about Wright's first visit to Oak Ridge on Feb. 28. The U.S. race with China to develop AI technology, which heated up when a Chinese company called DeepSeek released a ...

He also made many references to the infamous Manhattan Project as part of the reason he believes Oak Ridge will continue to be one of the country's leaders in research and development.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visited Oak Ridge, declaring that the AI race with China is a Manhattan Project-like competition. Wright's first visit follows weeks of terminations of ...

The lab has worked on AI since the creation of the Oak Ridge Applied Artificial Intelligence Project in 1979. Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, joined Wright at the lab to ...