Altman said that a project like Stargate might not have been possible with "a different president."

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are sparring over Donald Trump’s futuristic $500 billion artificial intelligence project. Musk landed the first blow by saying the tech firms behind the artificial intelligence infrastructure initiative didn’t have enough cash.

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.

A new company called Stargate, which combines some of the largest names in the artificial intelligence industry, was announced by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by phone on Friday, ahead of the AI infrastructure announcement, CNBC has learned.

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.

President Donald Trump talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to AI by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump announced a half-trillion-dollar AI initiative that will begin at Abilene's Lancium campus.

The price of Worldcoin jumped Wednesday, leading the crypto market after OpenAI's $500 billion AI initiative was unveiled.

The lawmakers suggested the companies used contributions to “cozy up” to President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to avoid regulatory scrutiny.

Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle joined Trump for the $500 billion announcement.