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.

On Tuesday, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced plans to form Stargate, a new company that will invest $500 billion in AI computing infrastructure across the United States over four years. The announcement came during a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, who called it the "largest AI infrastructure project in history."

President Donald Trump stood with one of San Francisco’s top tech tycoons inside the White House on Tuesday to announce a $500 billion artificial intelligence project, dubbed “Stargate.” Trump held a press conference alongside Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle to reveal to hefty investments for creating infrastructure to power