Musk, the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO, took shots this week at Stargate, Trump's highly touted project, and its partners.
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.
Bannon tore into Musk, revealing another fissure in the MAGA world over Trump's highly touted Stargate project.
Mr. Trump had claimed the A.I. announcement as an early trophy, taking credit for the companies’ decision to spend up to $500 billion building data centers.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced Stargate, a new entity that plans to invest $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure with the goal of making advancements in industries like health care and positioning the U.S. as the leader in AI.
Trump scraps Biden executive orders on technology and artificial intelligence, but has brought Silicon Valley leaders into his close orbit.
Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said of two of the participants in the $500 billion initiative, OpenAI and SoftBank, on his social media site X.
Stocks are approaching records in the first couple of days of Trump's presidency, with more pronounced moves in specific corners of the market this week.
Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle joined Trump for the $500 billion announcement.
Elon Musk “very much” overstepped his bounds when he criticized a $500 billion artificial intelligence project touted by President Donald Trump, according to a White House official as aides are reportedly “furious” with the tech mogul while allies lament that he “abused the proximity to the president.”
Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said OpenAI, Oracle (ORCL) and Softbank (SFTBY) “don’t actually have the money” to back up their pledge