“Three tech giants” team up to create a new company, Stargate, “to develop the infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States”, announcement CNN, which explains: “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison visited the White House on Tuesday [21 janvier] afternoon, to announce, alongside President Donald Trump, the creation of the company, which he described as ‘largest artificial intelligence infrastructure project in history’.”
Computer storage provider Oracle, Japanese investment fund SoftBank and the start-up behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, commit to investing $100 billion for its start-up and “plan to inject up to $500 billion” (480 billion euros) within five years. A first data center will be built in Texas, and the American president promises the creation of 100,000 jobs.
Stay ahead of China
On the first day of his second presidency, it is a “first trophy for Donald Trump”, notes The New York Times. The president promised d’“accelerate production of American-made AI to compete with China”. Monday January 20, he also
