The White House’s infrastructure project did not sit well with Musk, who has a dispute with the owner of OpenAI, a company involved in the program.
In the first week of his term as US president, Trump announced that he will direct massive investment to AI infrastructures. The project is estimated to cost 500 billion euros (around 480 billion euros), advances .
The millionaire who will head the new management’s Efficiency department ran, shortly after, to comment on the decision. “In truth, They don’t have the money”Musk on platform X. “SoftBank has well less than 10 billion dollars (9.6 billion euros) guaranteed. I have this on good authority.”
The new company in question will be called Stargate involves three companies that will jointly invest 100 billion dollars (96 billion euros) at the start of the project: SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle.
The criticism comes as an anti-climax at a time when the two politicians seemed strengthen (even more) their relationships. This Monday, Musk was an active member of Donald Trump’s inauguration, having given a speech in which he thanked the voters who brought him to power.
Musk was also present in the Oval Office when Trump signed a pardon for Ross William Ulbricht, founder of the dark web market SilkRoad, and sent senior representatives from his companies to help in the process and pardon and release of those responsible for the assault on the Capitol in 2021.
However, CNN points out,Musk has a lawsuit in hand course and its CEO Sam Altman, which may justify the comment on the project involving this company.
This is because the businessman says “not trusting” Altmanfollowing the CEO making ChatGPT’s most advanced services private. “Its technology, including GPT-4, is closed source primarily to serve Microsoft’s proprietary business interests,” Musk had charged.
