President Trump announced on Tuesday a massive AI infrastructure project involving OpenAI, Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), and SoftBank (TYO:9984), with an investment plan of up to $500 billion. This project, named Stargate,

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk cast doubt Wednesday on the ambitious $500 billion Project Stargate, hours after its announcement, claiming lead investor SoftBank Group SFTBY -0.36% + Free Alerts SFTBF + Free Alerts has “well under $10B secured.”

OpenAI and Microsoft have hit back at Elon Musk’s criticism of Stargate, the new $500bn artificial intelligence infrastructure project hailed by Donald Trump as a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential under a new president”.

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