Donald Trump, before and after last November’s election, promised us big things. This is a big thing: On Tuesday, the president announced a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) initiative in partnership with OpenAI, Oracle, and the Japanese company SoftBank.
President Trump announced Tuesday billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. The project is to be dubbed Stargate (Not Skynet).
OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, Trump said in a White House briefing.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son joined Trump for the announcement, along with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle.
“What we want to do is we want to keep it in this country,” Trump said. “China is a competitor, others are competitors. We want to be in this country, and we’re making…
