OpenAI boss tell world's richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project

The world has been treated to tech bro squabbling over Stargate, the $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure project, while the grown-ups look on.

The Stargate project was made public on Tuesday during a White House briefing. The plan is to spend the money over the next four years building new AI infrastructure in the US. An initial commitment of $100 billion is set to be deployed immediately.

The initial equity funders are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. OpenAI and SoftBank are leading the project, according to the AI giant.

At least, that's the plan. Yesterday, Elon Musk upended a bucket of scorn on the announcement with a terse message on his social media mouthpiece, X. "SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority."

OpenAI boss Sam Altman responded, "wrong, as you surely know," before inviting Musk to a tour of the first site in Texas ...