Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two tech billionaires that started on OpenAI's board and is now testing Musk's influence with the new president.

The AI contender to the apparent market leader finished a $2 million funding round and now has a $60 billion valuation.

ByteDance released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME.

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn't disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently.

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, Oracle, Softbank and MGX are investing a record amount in new AI infrastructure even as China's DeepSeek outperforms on cost.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that three leading companies would make a large investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

President Trump and the CEOs of OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle announced a new $500 billion AI initiative called "Stargate," CBS first reported. "Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements in AI,

AI is exciting, powerful and controversial, and some critics doubt the tech delivers on its promise. But the next big wave of AI 'agents' may prove genuinely helpful.

On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek launched a new, open-source large language model called DeepSeek R1. According to DeepSeek, R1 wins over other popular LLMs (large language models) such as OpenAI in several important benchmarks, and it's especially good with mathematical, coding, and reasoning tasks.