Such announcements aren’t without political risks, as OpenAI learned when Trump adviser Elon Musk criticized the deal on the social network he owns.

Musk slammed a Trump-backed $500 billion AI joint venture building out OpenAI’s artificial general intelligence.

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Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling and lawsuits.

Shortly after OpenAI announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, Elon Musk took to X to claim the whole thing a sham.

Musk has raised questions on project Stargate, the $500bn AI project. This lead to a verbal spat between him and Sam Altman.