- Microsoft’s Stargate project depends on OpenAI’s GPT-5 AI upgrade, due in early 2025. Microsoft’s interest in OpenAI’s AI models is boosted by its failure to deliver “Arrakis” in 2023.
- The primary challenge in developing an AI supercomputer is securing Nvidia GPUs, as they are currently in short supply, and potential competition from Altman and Microsoft could potentially provide an advantage.
Microsoft plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of AI systems, marking the final phase of Microsoft and OpenAI’s US supercomputer project.
the Origin of Stargate
Stargate, a 1994 science-fiction film, explores an interstellar teleportation device in Egypt, requiring Kurt Russell and James Spader to liberate enslaved people from a powerful false god.
The official trailer for Stargate, which inspired OpenAI and Microsoft’s AI supercomputer, encapsulates the key to the past, the door to the future, and the passage to discovery.
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Why will it be built?
Stargate’s creation depends on OpenAI’s GPT-5 AI upgrade, due in early 2025. Microsoft wants OpenAI to continue developing AI models. OpenAI’s failure to ship “Arrakis” in 2023 suggests slowing innovation, largely due to limitations of current supercomputers. Microsoft hopes OpenAI continues to innovate with captivating AI models.
Stargate may explain Sam Altman’s rumoured creation of a costly AI chip factory, as the main challenge is securing Nvidia GPUs to power the AI supercomputer, as Nvidia’s chips have been scarce in the AI hype cycle, giving Altman and Microsoft an unprecedented advantage.
