is Stargate a good Idea/project?
Today President Trump announced his new “Manhattan Project” called Stargate. After watching that announcement and researching the Stargate “players” we are at best uneasy of this new project. We believe President Trump might be making a mistake. There are so many good investment projects that can help the people of this country. So today we ask is Stargate a Good Idea/Project.
Our Concerns
First in general we continue to worry about rapid AI development without a comprehensive AI safety and control policies. So, we ask President Trump’s Administration to address this as quickly as possible. Second, we are somewhat nervous about the backgrounds and history of Stargate partners Ellison, Altman and Masayoshi Son. Ellison has interesting connections and involvement in Kanai, his hunting parties and tunnels. Altman has had significant issues with his sister and Son with his connections to Soft Bank and Alibaba and some of the interesting products they sell world-wide. Lastly what floored us was Ellison’s comments about MRNA vaccines to fight cancer and gene sequencing! Are you kidding us? So, we ask you to do your homework on this one! You decide if this is a good project or a bad one for our country? We think Trump needs to tell us why he named the project Stargate as well. Please, as always, let us know what you think!
STARGATE ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies. The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman. Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements. As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle. This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services. All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
Stargate Announcement Video