An AI project created to build the world's most advanced AI models. Launched in January 2025, the Stargate Project is led by OpenAI with financial contributions from SoftBank, Oracle and investment firm MGX, technical assistance from Microsoft and Oracle and hardware contributions from NVIDIA, ARM and others. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son was elected chairman. See
OpenAI.
Four Hundred Thousand Chips
With a projected budget of more than $500 billion in the next few years, the first Stargate datacenter is expected to use 400,000 of NVIDIA's latest chips, making it the largest AI training hub on earth. The goal is a super intelligence (see
AGI). The first Stargate Project datacenter is being built in Abilene, Texas, about 150 miles west of Dallas-Fort Worth with expected completion in late 2026. See
Project Colossus.