Stargate LLC

The largest private AI infrastructure investment in history, combining OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and UAE sovereign wealth. - Building AI infrastructure nationwide

The White House mobilized America's 17 national laboratories and tech's biggest players—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA—for what officials call the AI equivalent of the Manhattan Project. The Genesis Mission aims to double US research productivity in a decade by connecting supercomputers, quantum systems, and AI into one discovery platform. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced 24 corporate partners at a January 11 summit, each signing up to cement American technological dominance. Days later, OpenAI and SoftBank committed $1 billion to a 1.2-gigawatt Texas data center, while NVIDIA's Jensen Huang unveiled hardware promising AI tokens at one-tenth the cost.

Updated Jan 13

Joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX to build next-generation AI infrastructure. - Rapidly expanding to 7 GW capacity across multiple sites; on track for 10 GW and $500B total by year-end 2025

SoftBank just agreed to pay $4 billion for DigitalBridge, the alternative asset manager that controls $108 billion in data centers, cell towers, and fiber networks across three continents. It's the latest—and clearest—signal that Masayoshi Son is betting SoftBank's future on owning the physical infrastructure that powers AI, not just the software running on top of it. The timing is no coincidence: SoftBank is racing to secure $22.5 billion by year-end 2025 to meet its Stargate funding commitment to OpenAI.

Updated Dec 29, 2025