Stargate is the $500 billion AI Project, announced by President Donald Trump alongside tech leaders aiming to revolutionize U.S. AI infrastructure.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

Hours later, Elon Musk publicly raised questions about whether the joint venture would ever get off the ground.Late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, Musk wrote on X, his social-media platform,

Under the Trump administration, OpenAI and other members of the tech sector are making a push to establish AI dominance in the U.S.

President Donald Trump is supporting the newly formed Stargate to advance AI as construction on the company's first data center gets underway in Abilene.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank formed Stargate, a new venture investing up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure in Texas. President Donald Trump talked up the partnership on Jan. 21, calling it ”a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential.

Stargate isn’t just a massive AI investment—it’s a high-stakes bet on technology, power, and future global dominance.

OpenAI and Microsoft have hit back at Elon Musk’s criticism of Stargate, the new $500bn artificial intelligence infrastructure project hailed by Donald Trump as a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential under a new president”.

A new company called Stargate, which combines some of the largest names in the artificial intelligence industry, was announced by President Donald Trump.