The Stargate Project: OpenAI's $500 Billion Investment in 4 Minutes

--- type: transcript date: 2025-01-22 youtube_id: nR2O-WAP99o --- # Transcript: The Stargate Project: OpenAI's $500 Billion Investment in 4 Minutes a pretty big announcement for open AI tonight announcing the Stargate project so the Stargate project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build out AI infrastructure for open AI in the United States immediately they're going to be deploying a hundred billion this infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI create hundreds of thousands of American jobs and generate massive economic benefits to the world this project will not only support the reindustrialization the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the National Security of America and its allies the initial funders of Stargate this new entity SoftBank open aai Oracle and mgx SoftBank and open AI are the lead partners for Stargate with soft Bank having financial responsibility and openai having operational responsibility the buildout is currently underway starting in Texas and evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements as part of Stargate Oracle Nvidia and open AI will closely collaborate to build and operate this Computing system this Builds on the Deep collaboration between openai Nvidia going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between open aai and Oracle so this also Builds on the existing openai partnership with Microsoft open AI will continue to increase its consumption of azure as open AI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and Services it's mentioned here that all of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI in Partnership and in particular AGI for the benefit of all of humanity we believe that this new step is critical on the path and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate Humanity this type of investment is honestly pretty staggering to think about and the way that it's structured is interesting the Stargate project is a new company that's outside open AI in combination with some of these other key players to effectively fund this compute infrastructure it's interesting that this is open AI themselves that's owning this it's sort of a Consortium of different companies that seem to be funding this initiative but what is interesting is that this is AI infrastructure as it's described here for open AI specifically this is going to be interesting to see how it affects some of the competitors like xai anthropic and Google just to name a handful last I'll just play you a few different clips from the announc we've actually been been working with open AI for a while and with M masa for a while the data centers are actually under construction as the first of them are under construction in Texas each building's a half a million square feet there are 10 buildings currently you currently being built but that will expand to 20 and other locations be Beyond uh the abalene location which is which is our first location we would immediately start deploying hundred billion doll with a goal of making 500 billion within next four years Asia is coming very very soon and after that that's not the goal after that artificial super intelligence will come to solve the issues that mankind would never ever have thought that we could solve I I believe that as this technology progresses we will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate uh we will be amazed at how quickly we're curing this cancer and that one and heart disease uh and what this will do for the ability of to deliver very high quality Healthcare the costs but really to cure the diseases um at a rapid rapid rate I think will be among the most important things this technology does Imagine early cancer detection the development of a cancer vaccine for the for your particular cancer aimed at you and have have that vaccine available in 48 hours this is the promise of AI and the promise of the future