Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are preventing on X about Stargate, the big infrastructure challenge to construct information facilities for OpenAI throughout the U.S.
Stargate, introduced Tuesday throughout a press convention on the White House, would funnel as a lot as $500 billion from traders together with SoftBank and Middle East AI fund MGX into information facilities to assist OpenAI’s AI workloads. Partners in Stargate have initially pledged $100 billion, a few of which is being put towards an information middle below development in Abilene, Texas.
Elon Musk claims that Stargate doesn’t have the cash it says it does.
“The don’t even have the cash,” Musk wrote in a sequence of posts on X on Tuesday. “SoftBank has nicely below $10 billion secured. I’ve that on good authority.”
SoftBank has nicely below $10B secured. I’ve that on good authority.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2025
Musk, after all, just isn’t a impartial get together. He has his personal AI firm, xAI, that competes — and is at present embroiled in a lawsuit — with OpenAI. In the swimsuit, xAI and Musk accuse OpenAI of anticompetitive practices, together with discouraging traders in OpenAI from backing AI rivals.
Altman fired again at Musk in an X publish Wednesday — and known as his bluff.
“Wrong, as you certainly know,” Altman mentioned, responding to Musk’s allegation that SoftBank was in need of capital. “[Stargate] is nice for the nation. I notice what’s nice for the nation isn’t at all times what’s optimum on your corporations, however in your new position, I hope you’ll largely put America first.”
incorrect, as you certainly know.
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that is nice for the nation. i notice what’s nice for the nation is not at all times what’s optimum on your corporations, however in your new position i hope you will largely put 🇺🇸 first.
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 22, 2025
Musk was just lately appointed the pinnacle of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory fee recommending deep cuts to federal companies. DOGE was made extra official Monday by an govt order signed by President Donald Trump, however the fee faces plenty of authorized challenges.
xAI, like OpenAI, is hungry for infrastructure to develop its AI programs. Musk’s firm is estimated to have spent $12 billion on its single information middle in Memphis, Tennessee, and will spend billions extra upgrading the power.
Asked about Musk’s X posts throughout an interview on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, an in depth OpenAI collaborator and investor, refused to weigh in. “All I do know is, I’m good for my $80 billion,” he mentioned, referring to Microsoft’s latest pledge to spend $80 billion on AI information facilities this yr.
