The AI assistant will first be made available to subscribers of ChatGPT Pro, a $200 a month subscription, and eventually roll out into the free version of ChatGPT.

WHEN SAM ALTMAN, boss of OpenAI, posted a gnomic tweet this month saying “There is no wall,” his followers on X, a social-media site, had a blast. “Trump will build it,” said one. “No paywall for ChatGPT?” quipped another. It has since morphed from an in-joke among nerds into a serious business matter.

OpenAI announced a new joint venture named The Stargate Project which aims to build a number of data centers for AI in the U.S.

The project, which will be financially led by SoftBank and operationally by OpenAI, will see an immediate investment of $100 billion. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman of the company.

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating

OpenAI's Stargate Project, a $500 billion AI initiative with partners like Nvidia and Oracle, aims to build advanced data centres.

OpenAI stated that The Stargate Project is a new company that will invest $500 billion to build AI infrastructure in the US.

OpenAI has introduced the Stargate Project, a bold initiative to invest $500 billion over the next four years to develop advanced AI infrastructure in the

India's needs to build core competencies and fund foundational research in AI and semiconductors—both for the sake of the local market, and for India's global geopolitical leverage.