A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project.

The AI assistant will first be made available to subscribers of ChatGPT Pro, a $200 a month subscription, and eventually roll out into the free version of ChatGPT.

WHEN SAM ALTMAN, boss of OpenAI, posted a gnomic tweet this month saying “There is no wall,” his followers on X, a social-media site, had a blast. “Trump will build it,” said one. “No paywall for ChatGPT?” quipped another. It has since morphed from an in-joke among nerds into a serious business matter.

OpenAI announced a new joint venture named The Stargate Project which aims to build a number of data centers for AI in the U.S.

The project, which will be financially led by SoftBank and operationally by OpenAI, will see an immediate investment of $100 billion. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman of the company.

The $500 billion Stargate project will be critical to "maintain American leadership in AI," one of the partners said in a statement.

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

OpenAI's Stargate Project, a $500 billion AI initiative with partners like Nvidia and Oracle, aims to build advanced data centres.

The Stargate Project, a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, aims to establish a series of state-of-the-art data centers dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence in the United States.

Nvidia gained ground today following the announcement of Stargate -- a new joint company formed by OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank. The three partners have announced they will soon be investing $100 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure -- and the development bodes well for Nvidia.