The plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence is revealed at a White House press conference, with Masayoshi’s son, Sam Altman and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce the Stargate project. Their companies, SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle (respectively), are listed as “initial equity funders” for $500 billion in investments over the next four years, with MGX “building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.”
Accordingly A statement from OpenAI“Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI” are the initial technical partners, with construction starting in Texas “currently underway” as other sites around the country are evaluated. It also says that “Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will collaborate closely to build and operate this computing system.”
separately, Microsoft has announced an update it Partnership with OpenAIIt said key elements of their deal would remain in place until 2030, covering “our access to OpenAI’s IP, our revenue sharing arrangements and furthering our exclusivity on OpenAI’s APIs”.
While announcing this project in the press conference, which was the rumor Since the beginning of last yearSon and Altman spoke directly to Trump, insisting that the project only happened because of his election victory.
