OpenAI, Oracle and Stargate
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The latest agreement between OpenAI and Oracle will expand Stargate’s data center capacity, ultimately surpassing the halfway point of their goal.
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle,
OpenAI and Oracle will develop another 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding a tie-up that has promised hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment to keep the U.S. ahead in the global artificial intelligence race.
The Stargate venture, unveiled at a White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end.
OpenAI's Sam Altman cautions that AI voice cloning poses a fraud threat to financial institutions, echoing cybersecurity experts' concerns about evolving AI issues.
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OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clearsWho's picking up the tab again? AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative.
Oracle stock was down after a report the Stargate AI project has been scaled back in the near term. But the company is still set to gain from a huge deal with OpenAI.