Musk Lashes Out As Trump Backs Sam Altman For World's Largest AI Project

The comments marked a rare instance of a split between the world's richest man and Donald Trump, with Elon Musk playing a key role in the newly installed administration after spending $270 million on the election campaign.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump, in his first full day in the White House, announced a major investment to build infrastructure for AI led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Trump said the venture, called Stargate, "will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States."

Donald Trump declared it "a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential" under his new administration, with an initial private investment of USD 100 billion that could reach five times that sum.