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Stargate: The $500 Billion AI Project and Musk vs. Altman
from Elon’s Salute & The Inauguration Bishop | The Tim Dillon Show #428 · #428
6 min
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Tim covers the Trump-backed $500 billion AI infrastructure project (Stargate) with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, riffing on the movie Stargate, joking about AI being used to 'enslave populations,' and detailing the public feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over funding and loyalty to America.
- Trump's AI project with Sam Altman: a $500 billion investment in Stargate infrastructure.
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman start fighting on X over the deal and Musk feeling pushed out.
- Tim notes Stargate is a movie about unlocking an ancient gateway—a fitting name for what tech billionaires actually believe they're funding.
- These tech people think they're going to have intergalactic fights; it's some science, some science fiction, some madness.
- Tim's competitive logic: we need to develop AI faster than China so China doesn't enslave their population more efficiently than we enslave ours.
- The Oracle chairman claims the project ties to digital health records and customized vaccines—the beginning of the human-AI hybrid.
- Tech guys don't care about what happens to the country or people; it's about being the leader in AI no matter what.
- They believe AI is already sentient or will be, and we must merge with it or the human race is toast—this is what they openly believe.
- Musk claims on X they don't actually have the money; SoftBank has well under $10 billion secured.
Sam AltmanElon MuskDonald TrumpArtificial IntelligenceChinaOracleBlackstoneStargateMicrosoft