The investment brings together an alliance of tech giants. While SoftBank and OpenAI are lead partners—with SoftBank handling financials and OpenAI managing operations—Oracle and MGX have also joined as equity funders.
Trump was joined by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who said the investment would start with $100 billion, plus a goal of $500 billion over the course of four years.
OpenAI announced a partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle, and Arm to develop advanced AI infrastructure in the U.S. through a new entity, The Stargate Project. This initiative plans to invest $500 billion over
Oracle is a natural partner as it is already one of the biggest data center operators in the U.S., while SoftBank has the money required to finance ambitious infrastructure projects. OpenAI, of course, is widely regarded as one of the leaders in terms of AI development.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk cast doubt Wednesday on the ambitious $500 billion Project Stargate, hours after its announcement, claiming lead investor SoftBank Group SFTBY -0.36% + Free Alerts SFTBF + Free Alerts has “well under $10B secured.”
Microsoft has revised key terms in its deal with OpenAI following the latter's joint venture with Oracle and SoftBank to build $500 billion of AI data centers in the US. The initiative, called Stargate,
Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.
Elon Musk on the new Project Stargate system with $500 billion of funding, says 'they don't actually have the money' to build the AI system.
European industrial stocks such as Schneider Electric and Prysmian surged on Wednesday as traders warmed up to prospects of their U.S. business after Donald Trump unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) investment push.
Microsoft’s multi-year partnership with OpenAI is taking a new direction as the ChatGPT maker will no longer exclusively choose Microsoft Azure for new cloud capacity.