US President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed criticism from shut ally Elon Musk a few US$500-billion synthetic intelligence venture that Trump introduced with nice fanfare on the White Home earlier this week.
Trump introduced on Tuesday that ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI with SoftBank and Oracle are planning a three way partnership referred to as Stargate, which he stated will construct knowledge centres and create greater than 100 000 jobs within the US.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison joined Trump on the White Home for the launch.
Musk, the Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man who has turn into an in depth adviser to Trump, is a rival of Altman and is in an ongoing lawsuit with OpenAI.
In a put up on X on Wednesday, Musk doubted the group can put collectively the funding for the venture. “They don’t even have the cash,” he stated. “SoftBank has properly underneath $10-billion secured. I’ve that on good authority.”
Trump, taking questions from reporters on the White Home on Thursday, was requested if Musk’s criticism of the AI deal bothered him.
“It doesn’t. He hates one of many folks within the deal,” Trump stated of Musk. “Individuals within the deal are very, very sensible folks. However, Elon, one of many folks he occurs to hate. I’ve sure hatreds of individuals, too.”
‘Very wealthy folks’
As for Musk’s claims about inadequate funding, Trump stated: “I don’t know in the event that they do, however you already know, they’re placing up the cash. The federal government’s not placing up something, they’re placing up cash. They’re very wealthy folks, so I hope they do.”
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A Trump adviser questioned whether or not the incident would result in a cut up between Trump and Musk, who’s main Trump’s authorities effectivity venture. “The top could also be in sight,” the adviser stated. — Steve Holland, Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose, (c) 2025 Reuters
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