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The US government and corporate partners have announced the investment of more than $500 billion over the next four years to build new artificial intelligence infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.
The new company, called The Stargate Project, will begin with $100 billion in immediate funding, according to an official announcement made on 22 January.
The infrastructure is expected to secure American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), create hundreds of thousands of American jobs and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world, according to OpenAI.
“This project will not only support the reindustrialisation of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies,” an official statement said.
“The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalise definitive agreements.
“All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI – and in particular AGI – for the benefit of all of humanity.
“We believe that this new step is critical on the path and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.”
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and Nvidia going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
