SoftBank Group Corp., OpenAI, and Oracle Corp. are forming a $100 billion joint venture to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, an effort unveiled with President Donald Trump aimed at speeding development of the emerging technology.
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Stargate is a private $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project that has begun building massive data centers in the United States. Stargate is a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank Group,
OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. unveiled Project Stargate during a Tuesday press briefing at the White House. The companies intend to build an expansive network of data centers that will be optimized to run AI workloads. OpenAI will be the sole user of the data centers, the Financial Times’ sources said.
President Donald Trump talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to AI by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
Trump announced a $500 billion project called Stargate backed by SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI. The details of this project have
The details of Stargate Project involve a collision of money, politics, and egos—with many potential conflicts down the road.
Trump was joined by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison at the White House to announce the venture, dubbed Stargate, which they said would deploy $100 billion immediately with the goal of eventually spending $500 billion for the construction of data centers and physical campuses.
About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, according to city documents seen
Donald Trump recently announced a $500 billion investment in the brand new Stargate Project – a joint venture with the leaders of Softbank Group, OpenAI, and Oracle – set to be "the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history.
"This will be a defining year for AI," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. "Over the coming years, it will drive our core products and business."