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'STARGATE' SQUARES SOME AI CIRCLES

The Stargate Project, spearheaded by OpenAI, is an ambitious project that aims to invest $500 billion over the next four years into building out AI infrastructure for the US. While the announcement of the project is an early win for the Trump administration, looking below the surface yields a lot of questions. It appears that previously announced deals and projects will be roped into this new initiative. Stargate will provide a lot of positive media for all of the companies involved while making a lot of money for some partners.

META'S GENAI ORG IN PANIC MODE

Meta engineers are frantically trying to dissect DeepSeek's models and copy everything they can learn from it. Its management is worried about justifying the massive cost of the company's GenAI organization, especially when every single leader is making more than what it cost to train DeepSeek V3 - and there are dozens of such 'leaders'. DeepSeek V3, trained with a $5.5 million budget, is already ahead of Llama 4 in benchmarks. DeepSeek R1 made things even scarier for the Meta.

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