Shortly after United States President Donald Trump - alongside OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle - announced a US$500 billion (A$797.1 billion) investment into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Elon Musk tried to tear it down.
Trump said the new company, called Stargate, would grow AI infrastructure in the U.S.
After Trump’s announcement, OpenAI posted about the project on X, to which Musk responded with scepticism claiming “they don’t actually have the money” for the project.
“SoftBank has well under $10 [billion] secured. I have that on good authority,” Musk posted.
In rebuttal to Musk’s claims, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, responded by saying Musk is “wrong”.
“This is great for the country. I realise what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies, but in your new role I hope you'll mostly put (America) first,” Altman posted.
While Musk has a strong allyship with Trump, being dubbed the “first buddy”, he has come into conflict with OpenAI in the past.
Musk is in an ongoing lawsuit with OpenAI, claiming he doesn’t trust Altman and claimed in the lawsuit that ChatGPT has abandoned its original nonprofit mission by reserving its most advanced AI for private customers.
The leaders of Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle agreed to invest US$100 billion for the project to start.
