Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S.

Shortly after OpenAI announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, Elon Musk took to X to claim the whole thing a sham.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

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

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

OpenAI and Microsoft have hit back at Elon Musk’s criticism of Stargate, the new $500bn artificial intelligence infrastructure project hailed by Donald Trump as a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential under a new president”.

The project backed by Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank was announced by President Donald Trump Jan. 21, but it's not without its detractors.

Trump tasked Musk with slashing federal spending with the new Department of Government Efficiency. The pair's budding relationship has grown more entwined since Trump won back the White House, but this is one of their most public disagreements to date.

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.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk voiced doubts about President Trump’s newly announced infrastructure plan for artificial intelligence, claiming that the technology companies behind the effort do

Trump announced a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of AI.

Elon Musk claimed overnight Tuesday that tech giants OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank don’t have enough money to fulfill their high-profile pledge to invest $500 billion in U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure.