Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute”
Chief executive Sam Altman's flexible approach to infrastructure projects is unsettling partners but boosting computing lead
(FT) - OpenAI's $500bn Stargate plan to secure computing power is being reworked and, in places, abandoned. — @financialtimes.com — www.ft.com/content/664a...
FT on OpenAI: “When Stargate launched, the company set a goal of locking in 10GW of capacity — roughly equivalent to 10 nuclear power stations — at a cost of about $500 billion by the end of the decade. The company now aims to beat that target. It claims to have already secured
So after a little under a year and a half of people telling me that Stargate was a “$500bn project backed by the US government” it comes out that it “maybe never really existed,” just like I always said [embedded post]