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Money behind Stargate signifies strategic importance of AI for the US

The project may become a gamechanger in the global technology race

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. The money behind the Stargate company announced by US President Donald Trump shows the strategic significance of artificial intelligence (AI) for the United States, head of AI research for the University 2035 project Yaroslav Seliverstov told TASS.

Stargate will invest $500 bln into AI development and create a potential 100,000 jobs. OpenAI, Softbank Group and Oracle are major contributors to the project, to name a few.

"Stargate aims to secure technological leadership for the US in the budding AI sphere. Such a scale of investment and the number of jobs underscore the strategic significance of AI for the US. The project may become a gamechanger in the global technology race," he said.

Funds will be invested in particular in the development of OpenAI infrastructure, deputy director of the competencies center at Lomonosov Moscow State University Sergey Trostyansky noted.

"Such injections serve as a support for OpenAI in the race among big language models, and for Trump - it strengthens US positions in the AI sphere," the expert said.

Those involved in the project could form an investment consortium, ST IT group CEO Anton Averyanov noted.

"It will allocate funds to companies belonging to these players and to smaller entities. The choice of OpenAI, Softbank Group and Oracle to lead the way is driven by the fact that they have huge expertise in this field and can efficiently distribute the budget, which will then enable creating over 100,000 new jobs," he added.