In 2014, I was sitting at my desk at SpaceX when I read that WhatsApp had been acquired for $19B.
That same day, I saw latest internal valuation was putting SpaceX’s below that.
One company was helping humanity become a multiplanetary species. The other helped us send each other better group texts.
People had literally risked everything (even their life) at SpaceX, and I remember thinking: something is deeply mispriced about the world.
A decade later, it feels like the pendulum is swinging back. Building hard things is cool again. Factories are cool again. Rockets are cool again.
The world is healing.
Congrats to the team at SpaceX and the fun arduous road so far. Can’t wait to see what’s next. Ad astra. 🚀
Our PM just compared a cricket match, which we shouldn’t have played in the first place because if blood & water can’t flow together then neither can sport!, to a high level armed forces ops where our bravest risked their lives to avenge the murder of innocent civilians!
Brilliant move, however, I humbly suggest that next time, @IndiainPortugal puts up the banners of the satellite images showing cratered runways and blown up hangars.
This should serve as a great response to a rabid Pak crowd creating ruckus outside our missions. @MEAIndia and @DrSJaishankar sir, we could benefit from such messaging.
Announcing The Stargate Project
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
Living in a world where a launched rocket lands on a couple of(very large) chopsticks, where cars drive by themselves, where you have humanoids able to serve you drinks.
Look up folks, we only go up from here.