Trump was joined by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who said the investment would start with $100 billion, plus a goal of $500

Yes, that's the name of a 1994 Roland Emmerich movie. It's now a big infrastructure project to help power tech giants' foray into AI.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on social media Wednesday after the OpenAI boss took center stage at the White House to unveil his ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project. Appearing alongside Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son,

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.

Stargate is supposed to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure, President Trump said. But Elon Musk suggested that the venture had much less cash.