Musk publicly posted in the new Trump administration initiative on synthetic intelligence
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Elon Musk, the CEO of billionaire Tech, which has President Donald Trump’s councilman, brazenly challenged a new synthetic intelligence initiative after the president announced.
Musk said on Tuesday that the new AI initiative, called Stargate, did not have the mandatory investment to succeed in its goal of making a $500 billion investment in the structure of AI infrastructure in the United States in the next 4 years.
“They don’t have the money,” Musk said in reaction to the announcement in X.
Musk’s swift rebuke was notable given his presence in Trump’s world. Musk was a vocal contributor to the president and made his presence known at Trump’s inauguration.
The initiative is a collaboration between Openai, an AI company that Musk co-founded before a crash with Sam Altman, SoftBank and Oracle.
In their announcement, the corporations said they would deploy $ 100 billion for the initiative. They hope to build centers of knowledge in the United States, warehouses full of strong servers that provide computing force to expand and advance AI.
But hours after the announcement, Musk threw cold water on it, claiming he had “on good authority” that SoftBank “has well under $10B secured.”
To advance on Wednesday, he responded to a tweet mocking the announcement of the $ 500 billion initiative with an emoji that cries.
Musk has one of Trump’s closest advisors in the year beyond the year. The Ministry of Efficiency of the Government was guilty of supervising, the guilty advisory council of reducing federal expenditure and was a component of the Trump transition process.
The split is particularly eye-catching given Trump has a long history of valuing loyalty among his team. There are hardly any members of Trump’s first administration who have been brought back for his second term because of prior conflicts.
Musk also has a public feud with Altman, his former colleague and the CEO of OpenAI.
The two previously sought to “save humanity” from AI’s risks through OpenAI. A dispute on the control of the struggle of the corporate and internal force led to the fall. Musk despite everything left the company in 2018 and since then has begun its own initiative of AI.
Musk has taken the prosecution to OpenAi and Altman and has used his platform on X to laugh at the company and the CEO.
Altman to Musk’s accusation over X and supported the $500 billion idea.
“Bad, as you really know,” Altman wrote. “It’s wonderful for the country. I realize what is wonderful to the country, this is not what is optimal for your business, but in your new role, I hope you first put [America] especially. “
Altman invited Musk to visit the first data site, which he said was underway. OpenAI has been working on the so-called Stargate for months and has long-saught government financing to support its goal of advancing AI in the U.S.
Altman added: “I respect your achievements and I think you are the maximum inspiring businessman of our time. “
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