OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

President Donald Trump is supporting the newly formed Stargate to advance AI as construction on the company's first data center gets underway in Abilene. Trump announced the new entity formed by OpenAI,

OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle will join forces to create Stargate, a new company investing $500 billion in AI infrastructure. President Donald Trump said of the investment: “A resounding