Stargate: Unpacking President Trump's AI Exploration

By michael vivar

If you've been keeping up with Donald Trump's moves since the 2024 election results, you likely already know that he's been talking to industry leaders in the world of tech.

Trump has met with the CEOs of OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle. He intends to unite the resources of these companies and others under the umbrella of "Stargate."

It's purported that the Stargate consolidation will be part of a massive push for Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

Wall Street is reacting positively to the news. OpenAI isn't publicly traded but Softbank and Oracle are and their stocks have rallied with alacrity.

The name Stargate was lifted from the film and television franchise in which constructed wormholes transport characters across space and time.

The real-world endeavor seeks to set up data centers and chip manufacturing plants then spread AI assistance to fields including medicine, researching vaccines and cancer cures.

Between research and development then subsequent construction, the venture is tentatively predicted to cost $500 billion.

Critics, including currently close Trump booster, Elon Musk, have commented the triumvirate conglomeration doesn't have nearly that much market capitalization.

For now, there's no way of knowing how this will all play out. Stargate is undoubtedly another inexorable step of AI affecting the global landscape's every facet.

"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human." - Alan Turing, British computer scientist and progenitor of modern AI

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