Anxious to ingratiate himself with the Trump administration which has recently come to power, Sam Altman has just announced 500 billion investments to strengthen the development of AI across the Atlantic.
It’s a colossal sum. In order to ensure “American leadership in artificial intelligence», Sam Altman announced the launch of “Projet Stargate», a huge investment plan in AI of 500 billion dollars over 4 years.
As Techcrunch explains, this nest egg will be used to build data centers in the territory as well as, ideally, to develop the next “superordinateur» capable of improving the capabilities of ChatGPT. A machine modestly nicknamed “Stargate” SO.
General AI after 500 billion?
OpenAI is of course not alone at the helm of this huge investment. Behind this project, we find the company’s usual partners, namely Microsoft, Nvidia, ARM and the Japanese investment bank SoftBank, among others. “This project will not only contribute to the reindustrialization of the United States, but also provide strategic infrastructure to protect the national security of America and its allies.», Explained OpenAI in a press release published on Twitter.
Concretely, the project will first manifest itself in the construction of a gigantic data center in Texas, then others throughout the United States. No doubt, in the same vein, OpenAI will try to realize its dream of building its own chips for ever greater vertical integration.
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Unsurprisingly, OpenAI is selling this project as a fundamental step in creating a “general artificial intelligence“. A concept which, by the company’s own admission, has a somewhat fluid definition. However, the company announces that such progress will allow “for creatives to identify how AI could advance humanity“. In short, three times nothing.
A political coup
In addition to representing a colossal economic and technical investment, this 500 billion promise is also a political blow for Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Announced the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump, this investment plan runs for the duration of the 47th president’s mandate. Those responsible for the affair also insisted that this future is only made possible thanks to the election of the old-new president.
Altman also admits to being “largely agree» with Donald Trump regarding the useless «bureaucratic complexity» which frames the entrepreneurial spirit in the United States.
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Donald Trump does not want to regulate the development of this technology
Surprisingly, however, Elon Musk himself seems to have some doubts about the feasibility of such a project. In response to OpenAI’s message, the Tesla CEO and now Donald Trump’s right-hand man explained that the company “actually doesn’t have the money» to cover these ambitions. A message which makes Musk’s position with Trump even more vague, torn between his position as “special advisor” and his historical animosity towards OpenAI.
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