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Is SoftBank still backing OpenAI?


Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end." To quote: A $500 billion effort unveiled at the White House to supercharge the U.S.’s artificial-intelligence

Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end." Altman has used the Stargate name, shared with a 1994 Kurt Russell film about aliens who teleport to ancient Egypt, on projects that aren’t being financed by the partnership between OpenAI and SoftBank. One might also be confused by the Bloomberg story called " Inside The First Stargate AI Data Center," which had the subheadline "OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank hope that the site in Texas is the first of many across the US."

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