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OpenAI’s ‘Stargate Project’ Sparks Musk Criticism

Akinola Ajibola by Akinola Ajibola
January 23, 2025
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According to OpenAI, The Stargate Project is a new firm that will invest $500 billion in developing AI infrastructure in the United States. 

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the launch of a new company called The Stargate Project. The firm’s new venture will focus on the development of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the United States. The corporation declared that it would spend a total of $500 billion over four years to expand capacity in new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will start deploying $100 billion immediately. The development comes after the AI firm experienced several outages recently and was forced to impose a rate limit on its video generating platform Sora to reduce server strain. Notably, Microsoft also published a statement emphasizing that the partnership did not alter its existing agreement with Open AI.

This infrastructure will ensure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and provide significant economic benefits for the entire world. This project will not only help to re-industrialize the United States, but it will also provide a strategic capability to protect America’s and its allies’ national security interests.

Stargate’s original equity funders include SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. Stargate’s major partners are SoftBank and OpenAI, with SoftBank responsible for finance and OpenAI for operations. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.

In a blog post, OpenAI stated that The Stargate Project aims to develop the AI enterprise while also securing American leadership in AI. The idea is to invest $100 billion immediately and the remaining $400 billion over the next four years. The venture’s first equity funders include SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI will be the primary partners, with the former managing financial and the latter handling operational responsibilities.

Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the primary first technological partners. The buildout is presently underway, beginning in Texas, and they are examining suitable locations across the country for additional campuses as we secure definite agreements.

In terms of technology, OpenAI collaborates with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. Nvidia and OpenAI will create and run the new AI infrastructure. The post stated that infrastructure construction was already underway in Texas, and the corporation was looking into additional suitable locations and campuses as they secure definite agreements.

As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will work closely together to create and operate this computing infrastructure. This builds on OpenAI and NVIDIA’s deep collaboration, which began in 2016, as well as OpenAI and Oracle’s more recent alliance.

This also adds to the existing OpenAI collaboration with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to raise its Azure consumption as it works with Microsoft to train leading models and offer amazing products and services.

Notably, OpenAI already has a cooperation with Microsoft, which will last until 2030. The arrangement grants Microsoft’s Azure cloud service platform exclusive access to the OpenAI API. In a statement made on Wednesday, Microsoft stated that all of the deal’s existing terms will remain in effect.

Microsoft also stated that OpenAI “recently made a new, large Azure commitment that will continue to support all OpenAI products as well as training.” The tech behemoth announced that it has granted ChatGPT’s authority to expand capacity, which will mostly be utilized for model development and training. 

According to The Information, OpenAI leadership was becoming dissatisfied with Microsoft because the firm believed Azure was not moving quickly enough to scale its servers to fulfil OpenAI’s processing requirements.

While this initiative appears promising, a close ally of the President and Co DOGE (Department of Efficiency) in the administration believes OpenAI is bluff and afford this due to lack of funds According to reports, Musk may be undermining US President, who allegedly had call with OpenAI CEO Sam Alt and expressed his for the initiative. The reportedly stated that an organization backing a program he supports will succeed because disagrees with one of the.

watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (i wish i had done more of my own thinking and definitely fell in the npc trap).

i'm not going to agree with him on everything, but i think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!

— Sam Altman (@sama) January 23, 2025

Meanwhile Sam Altman has joined growing list of tech who have “kissed the Trump ring” in an effort to avoid conflicts with new President.

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