Announcing The Stargate Project

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX launched Stargate, a new company planning to invest $500 billion over four years in US AI infrastructure for OpenAI, with $100 billion deployed immediately. SoftBank handles financing, OpenAI handles operations, and Masayoshi Son is chairman; buildout has started in Texas with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle as initial technology partners. The key signal is compute supply and control structure, not the headline rhetoric.

Why it matters: This is far above a routine partnership story: OpenAI is tying itself to a $500B, four-year infrastructure buildout with $100B to deploy immediately. HKR-H/K/R all pass because the scale is surprising, the post gives concrete capital and governance details, and the story lands on