Many experts predicted that “Bromance” between Donald Trump and Elon Musk may not be lasting, due to the assertive character of each of the two strong houses in the White House. But little expected, no doubt, that the first flaws would appear so quickly.
Now it was not late. On Wednesday, the American president unveiled Stargate, a gigantic investment project in artificial intelligence (AI), alongside Sam Altman, director of Openai, the boss of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, and the technological director of Oracle, Larry Ellison . The goal: that these three players raise up to $ 500 billion to build immense infrastructure in AI on American soil. Recall that the basis of this project is not new, and that it had already been sketched under the chairmanship Biden.
This announcement was not to Elon Musk’s taste. “They don’t have the money,” he wrote on his X network, saying that “Softbank is only assured of $ 10 billion”. “False, as you surely know,” replied Sam Altman, who offered to “come and visit the first work already underway”.
-Recall that the two men had been one of the co -founders of Openai, before blurring. Since then, Elon Musk has raised billions for his own projects in artificial intelligence and his XAI company, which can be looming in serious competitor of Openai. Legal procedures between the two men are more in progress.
Elon Musk, infection of American vice-president, has many enemies and competitors in Silicon Valley, and this first quarrel will certainly call others. We can easily imagine new bibbilles between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, director of Meta, on the social networks market, for example. In parallel, the new pricing policies that Donald Trump could decide in front of China will necessarily have a significant impact on the giants of Silicon Valley. On the other hand, a priori, the end of subsidies for electric cars in the United States could benefit Tesla, one of the only manufacturers to be profitable on this market.
