Elon Musk casts doubt on… The first major announcement of investment in technology Made by President Trump, he openly questioned the administration he now serves.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump Announced a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle To create at least $100 billion worth of computing infrastructure to power AI, some of which is already underway.
But in two late-night messages on
“They don’t have the money. SoftBank got a lot less than $10 billion. I take that on good authority,” Mr. Musk wrote in response to an OpenAI post at the announcement.
The ouster of Mr. Musk, one of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers and who will head an agency created to cut the country’s budget, marks one of his first public breaks from the administration. It is also an unusual move for any senior political official to question an initiative that the president has cheered.
Trump viewed the AI announcement as an early award, taking credit for companies’ decision to spend up to $500 billion to build data centers, huge buildings filled with servers that provide computing power. Mr. Trump promised to remove regulatory hurdles to the development of artificial intelligence and make the United States a global leader in the technology, overtaking China.
Stargate already has $100 billion, two people familiar with the project said. The financing was provided by SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX, a UAE investment group focused on artificial intelligence.
Mr. Musk has been fighting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Mr. Musk, who helped found the company, He sued OpenAI and Mr. Altman for antitrust violations.
Mr. Altman took to X on Wednesday morning to refute Mr. Musk’s claims.
“This is wrong, as you certainly know,” Mr. Altman wrote. “Would you like to visit the first site already underway?”
