The first major project of donald trump As president of the United States, he barely had a few hours to live and his inseparable Elon Musk He poured a jug of cold water on it. The billionaire, who has become a figure of the highest influence in the circle … of Trump, defended that Stargate, the private artificial intelligence project sponsored the day before, it does not have the pharaonic financing that the president and the large participating companies anticipated.
“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on his social network, X, in response to a message from OpenAI announcing the project. According to the artificial intelligence giant, Stargate “seeks to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build new artificial intelligence infrastructure for OpenAI in the US We will begin to dedicate 100,000 million immediately. “This infrastructure will ensure US leadership in artificial intelligence, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and generate massive economic benefit around the world.”
Before, Trump had presented it in style from the White House, in an event in the company of the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman; the CEO of Softbank, Masayoshi Son; and the founder and president of Oracle, Larry Ellison. Trump called the project “monumental,” “tremendous.” “This will include the construction of colossal data centers, massive structures,” said the new president. “Those buildings, huge and beautiful, are going to employ a lot of people.”
But Musk put on the party pooper suit and doubted that this rain of millions is real, at least on the part of OpenAI and Softbank. Regarding the latter, he also wrote in X that the Japanese technology giant “has less than 10 billion committed. And I know it from a good source.
The comments represent the first friction in the White House between Trump and Musk, between the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world. Many in the US believe that the only question about the deterioration of the relationship between the two is not if it will happen, but when.
On this occasion, the comment may have upset Trump. But the person he was really looking to attack was Altman, from OpenAI, with whom Musk maintains a confrontation. The leader of Tesla or SpaceX has tried to block through the courts the conversion of OpenAI from a non-profit entity to a private company.
Musk was with Altman at the founding of OpenAI. But the South African entrepreneur abandoned her and now she can’t stand him, as she made clear in a cascade of messages shared on
Altman also responded in “Do you want to visit the first center, which is already underway?” “I understand that what is very good for this country is not necessarily the best for your companies,” he added about Musk, who competes against OpenAI with his own artificial intelligence project. “But in your new role (Musk will lead an external government department to reduce public spending) I hope that above all you will put America first.”
Afterwards, Altman seemed to want to compete with Musk not only in technology, but also in Trump affection. After having been very critical of the current president for years, he now seems to have turned a corner.
“Watching the president more carefully lately has changed my perspective on him, I wish I had thought more for myself,” he wrote on the social network, a few days after attending Trump’s inauguration, to which his company donated a million dollars. “I’m not going to agree with him on everything, but I think he will be incredible for the country in many ways,” he added. That Musk and Altman are fighting over him perhaps compensates for the president’s anger over the friction over Stargate.
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