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Musk Faults Trump’s $500bn AI Initiative

by Ruth Nwokwu
4 months ago
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SpaceX boss, Elon Musk on Wednesday criticised a $500 billion Artificial Intelligence project announced by United States President Donald Trump, saying the money promised for the investment actually was not available.

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The comments marked a rare instance of a split between Trump and Musk who played a crucial part in getting the newly inaugurated President into power and spending $270 million on the election campaign.

Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for AI, led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker, OpenAI.

Trump said the venture, called Stargate, “will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States.”

But in a post on his social media platform X, Musk said the main investors “don’t actually have the money.”

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“SoftBank has well under $10bn secured. I have that on good authority,” Musk added in a subsequent post.

Musk’s swipe could be particularly targeted at OpenAI, the world’s leading AI startup that he helped found before leaving in 2018.

The Tesla boss and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, who was present at the White House on Tuesday, have been mired in a serious feud with Musk opening repeated lawsuits against the company behind ChatGPT.

“Wrong, as you surely know. Want to come to visit the first site already underway?” Altman replied to Musk on X.

“This is great for the country. I realise what is great for the country isn’t always what’s optimal for your companies, but in your new role I hope you’ll mostly put (country) first,” he added.

OpenAI is one of the world’s highest-valued startups but loses money on the high costs of turning out its expensive technology.

According to the Wall Street Journal, cloud giant Oracle, which is also involved, has about $11 billion in cash and securities. SoftBank has roughly $30 billion of cash on hand.

“The American people should take President Trump and those CEOs’ words for it. These investments are coming to our great country and American jobs are coming along with them,” Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.

The Stargate project is committed to investing an initial $100 billion in the project, and up to $500billion over the next four years.

Abu Dhabi’s AI-focused state fund MGX and Oracle are also providing funding for the project, while SoftBank-owned Arm, Microsoft and Nvidia will be technology partners.

According to the companies, the project is initially building a data centre operation in Texas, where construction is already underway.

Ahead of taking office, Trump this month unveiled a $20billion Emirati investment in US data centres, as well as a previous investment pledge from SoftBank.

SoftBank, headed by flamboyant Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son, who announced Stargate on Tuesday with Trump, Altman and Oracle boss Larry Ellison declined to comment.

In its statement on Tuesday, the Japanese investment group said it would “begin deploying $100 billion immediately” for the project.

The firm’s shares were up around six per cent on Thursday, having added more than 10 per cent on Wednesday.

Technology news outlet Information said that SoftBank and OpenAI each plan to commit $19billion of capital to Stargate, Bloomberg News reported.

The two companies would then both own 40 per cent of it, the Information said, citing comments by Altman to colleagues.

It added that Oracle and MGX would contribute about $7 billion apiece, with the rest of the money coming from limited partners and debt financing.

Son, 67, founded SoftBank in his 20s. He made spectacularly successful early bets on Yahoo! and Alibaba but also some disastrous investments such as WeWork.

In Trump’s first term, the rags-to-riches investor promised SoftBank would invest $50billion in the US and create 50,000 jobs.

Appearing alongside Trump in December 2024, Son said he would now “double down” with $100bn and generate employment for 100,000 Americans.


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