It’s the latest clash in a feud between the two tech billionaires that started on OpenAI’s board and is now testing Musk’s influence with the new president.

OpenAI and Microsoft have hit back at Elon Musk’s criticism of Stargate, the new $500bn artificial intelligence infrastructure project hailed by Donald Trump as a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential under a new president”.

A fresh conflict has ignited between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, over a newly unveiled artificial intelligence initiative called Stargate. The ambitious $500 billion project, championed by former President Donald Trump,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

President Trump announced a major AI infrastructure investment of “at least $500 billion,” signaling a willingness to work alongside large tech companies.

The venture involves OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle, and starts with an investment of $100 billion. On the second day of his second presidency, Donald Trump announced the creation of a joint venture with OpenAI,