A closer look at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after President Trump announces a multi-billion dollar joint venture between Altman's company, SoftBank and Oracle, and why it's already drawing the ire of major Trump ally Elon Musk.

The White House is expected to announce a multibillion-dollar investment in American artificial-intelligence infrastructure from a joint venture of OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle on Tuesday afternoon. The companies are committing $100 billion to the joint venture,

Elon Musk's criticism of President Trump's $500 billion Stargate AI initiative has sparked outrage among White House aides.

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."

A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project.

Shortly after OpenAI unveiled its $500 billion Stargate initiative, Elon Musk took to his social media platform to express his doubts about the project. In a

Since then, Musk hasn’t hidden his anger with Altman and OpenAI. He’s currently suing the company over its decision to become a for-profit corporation, and he regularly trolls the company on X—the platform he bought for $44 billion back in 2022. All of which is why the past week has been hilarious.

Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,

OpenAI, Oracle and Soffbank pledged to build up to $500 billion worth of data centers in the U.S. after a President Trump-brokered Stargate joint venture deal.

Earlier this week, he unveiled perhaps the most ambitious infrastructure project in history—and all but dedicated it to Sam Altman.