Stargate

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LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Biderman: AI solutions will rely on model routing, not single monolithic models
“So I think routing will be part of the solution there for sure, and I think Many people, not just myself, say this solution is multi-modal. It's not Engram taking over. There's one model, and you teach it things, and you can close Stargate. That's not our appr…”
Dan Biderman Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 36:56 The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Swyx: Project Stargate represents 2% of US GDP
“Stargate itself, two percent of U.S. GDP.”
Shawn Wang Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 1:07:18 Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
TBPN Assertion Supported
Hays: OpenAI urges White House to invest in Stargate supercomputing initiative
“In a letter to the White House sent this AM, this was yesterday, OpenAI encourages the federal government, government to invest in or contract with initiatives like OpenAI's Stargate to secure compute for public research.”
Jordi Hays Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 22:12 TBPN Year in Review
OpenAI is a high-cost token producer because it pays third-party compute margins
“OpenAI is Issue that they're trying to solve with Stargate is because they pay a margin to people for compute. And maybe the people who run their computer, not the best at running GPUs. They're a high cost producer of tokens.”
Gavin Baker Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 49:49 GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Patel: Microsoft dropped Stargate for OpenAI due to slow execution
“Microsoft is not building Stargate for OpenAI, right? It's because it would have just been too slow, and they're doing it the lame and old way.”
Dylan Patel Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 32:58 No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and SoftBank's Stargate has not closed a single data center deal
“Six months after Japanese billionaire Masayoshi stood shoulder to shoulder With Sam Altman and President Trump to announce the Stargate project, the newly formed company charged with making it happen has yet to complete a single deal for a data center.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 22:47 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: OpenAI redefined Stargate to include any rented data center
“Part of the reason they're able to claim Stargate is off the ground is because they changed the definition of it. Previously, it had to involve open AI, Oracle, the data center provider, SoftBank, the financier and MGX, which is a huge New sovereign wealth or …”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 29:35 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
The Stargate data center corporate entity hasn't even been formed
“The Stargate entity does not exist. They haven't formed it yet.”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 9:44 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Coogan: Dylan Patel reports Stargate supercomputer cluster goes online in December
“Dylan Patel says December is when Stargate's coming online, and that should be a big like the biggest cluster ever”
John Coogan Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 2:26:39 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Albergotti: OpenAI's Stargate will focus on inference across multiple sites
“My guess is like, yeah, it will be built, but like, is it gonna be some huge thing that then they like train and train AGI on? I think it's probably gonna be like multiple sites and that are connected. And a lot of it's gonna be inference rather than training.”
Reed Albergotti Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 45:18 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
20VC Opinion
Morin: Stargate data center is inefficient vertical scaling for AI
“It is a vertical scaling. And as you know, my days are spent on efficiency. So I look at these things as being like, all right, this is a bigger, you know, this is an American car of AI. It's big. It consumes a lot of gas, but ultimately, you know, it's not a …”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 1:12:11 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
SOURCERY Assertion Open · timeframe Jan 2028
Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure
“Remember, it's equity dollars and debt that's going into this, so five hundred billion is probably a hundred billion of equity, of money going in that is sort of risk money, the rest is building out The infrastructure, 25% of it goes to buildings and cooling s…”
Gordon Ritter Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 19:17 How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
20VC Opinion
Ross: $500B AI infrastructure plan is not enough spending
“Actually, I don't think it's enough spending.”
Jonathan Ross Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 19:22 Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Stargate's First Texas Data Center to Be Run by Oracle
“Stargate's first data center will be in Texas. The site which started construction last year will be operated by Oracle and used by OpenAI.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 11:08 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
TBPN Insight
Coogan: Unprofitable AI labs must separate software and infrastructure vehicles
“OpenAI is a software company with different long-term cost structure than that of an infrastructure company. That's fine if you're at Microsoft scale and profitability, but for entities that are losing money and looking to raise more, it makes sense to be diff…”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 21:28 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos

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