Altman’s Massive AI Plan Gains Trump, Son, and Ellison as Power Players

Silicon Valley's most ambitious AI blueprint just got its dream team—and a political shockwave.

The Power Broker Alliance

Sam Altman isn't just pitching another AI startup. He's assembling a coalition that bridges tech titans, political heavyweights, and global capital. With Masayoshi Son's Vision Fund billions and Larry Ellison's cloud empire in the mix, this plan has the infrastructure to move markets overnight. Donald Trump's involvement adds a layer of geopolitical theater—imagine AI policy debates with campaign-trail fireworks.

Follow the Money, Ignore the Hype

Massive plans require massive funding. Son's history of writing nine-figure checks for 'the next paradigm' meets Ellison's enterprise-scale pragmatism. The financial engineering behind this could make a crypto ICO look straightforward—though with marginally more regulatory scrutiny. It's the kind of deal that creates billionaires and burns through cash faster than a meme coin at its peak.

The New Rules of the Game

This isn't just about building smarter algorithms. It's about rewriting the rules of economic competition. When AI development gets this level of concentrated capital and political cover, it bypasses traditional innovation pipelines. Entire industries face obsolescence, while new ones emerge from spreadsheets and server farms. The plan promises to cut through bureaucratic red tape—or maybe just paint it in patriotic colors.

A cynical take? The finance world will spin this as 'transformative disruption' while quietly shorting any stock that looks replaceable by a chatbot. Because nothing says 'long-term vision' like quarterly earnings calls and algorithmic trading bots front-running the announcement.

Altman pushes massive AI plan alongside Trump, Son, and Ellison

On the first full day of President Trump’s second term, Sam showed up at the WHITE House with Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son. Together, they announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion push to supercharge America’s AI infrastructure. Sam didn’t think half a trillion dollars was enough. Son said, “We discussed, and he said ‘More is better.’ More is better.” That’s how Sam thinks — always bigger.

Sam said working with TRUMP has been “easy,” even if their goals aren’t the same. Trump is focused on winning for America. Sam says OpenAI’s mission is about “all of humanity.” That tension doesn’t bother him. He sees OpenAI expanding fast and far.

Besides ChatGPT and Sora, they’re building their own AI chips, designing a new social media app to compete with X, and thinking about humanoid robots for factories. They’re also building tools for health care and testing a freemium business model for ChatGPT.

That’s not all. Mark Chen, OpenAI’s chief research officer, said they’re training a kind of “AI researcher intern” to help real scientists MOVE faster.

“We are heading toward a system that will be capable of doing innovation on its own,” Sam said. “I don’t think most of the world has internalized what that’s going to mean.”

Employees raise concerns over speed and missed deals

Not everyone inside OpenAI is cheering. Some employees told Forbes they’re worried the company is growing too fast. GPT-5 didn’t impress them. Then Apple chose Google to power the next Siri, a deal OpenAI thought was already locked. “Yeah, that was not great,” one engineer admitted.

Sam holds stakes in over 400 companies. Some think that shows he’s distracted. Others, like his mentor Graham, just say that’s how Sam operates; he jumps on anything he sees as undervalued. “I bet he finds it hard to resist buying commercial real estate in San Francisco,” Graham said.

At one point, Sam told Forbes, “We basically have built AGI, or very close to it.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella didn’t agree. “I don’t think we are anywhere close,” he said, laughing. “It’s not about Sam or me declaring it.” Even as partners, Nadella admitted their companies have “friction.” He called them “frenemies.”

A few days later, Sam walked that statement back. “I meant that as a spiritual statement, not a literal one,” he said. He believes reaching true AGI won’t take one big leap – just lots of medium breakthroughs. “I don’t think we need a big one.”

There’s also a stick of uranium-238 on Sam’s desk. Seriously. He calls it harmless. “That’s depleted,” he said. He even waved a Geiger counter to prove it. He says it reminds him of the kind of physics discovery that led to nuclear energy – or nuclear weapons. “Just a crazy, fast thing.”

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