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.

Trump this week announced a venture between OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, Oracle and SoftBank that will invest up to $500 billion aimed at ramping up artificial intelligence infrastructure like data centers and power generation to meet the vast demands of AI processing.

The tech billionaires have a rocky history, and Musk's comments about funding for the project, which could attract $500 billion prompted a pointed response from OpenAI leader Altman.

OpenAI’s plan to build new data centers will get no government subsidies and is in fact already well underway.

Tech titan Elon Musk cast doubt Wednesday on a $500 billion AI project announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the money promised for the investment actually wasn't there. The comments marked a rare instance of a split between the world's richest man and Trump,