As news trickled out about President Trump’s announcement of a new $500 billion Stargate joint venture focused on artificial-intelligence infrastructure, some potential beneficiaries emerged. Companies such as Oracle Corp.
The $500 billion Stargate project will be critical to "maintain American leadership in AI," one of the partners said in a statement.
President Trump's support for AI boosts Nvidia's position, with Project Stargate driving growth in data centers and the Blackwell chip powering next-gen AI. Read more here.
SK Hynix Inc. earned a record quarterly profit after the company extended its lead in memory chips used in datacenters and artificial intelligence development.
Nvidia stock rose modestly early Friday as investors digested a raft of mixed news over the past few days. Shares were up 0.1% to $147.34 in premarket trading. It closed almost flat Thursday after starting the day in the red as a fresh outlook from supplier SK Hynix cast doubt over future demand for its products.
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce Stargate, a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project in the United States. He called it the "largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history."
The past few years have been undeniably profitable for Nvidia ( NVDA 4.43%) investors. The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap. The stock was up as much as 4.7% Wednesday morning. At 12:32 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 4.1%.
A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project.
Nvidia stock jumped Wednesday, extending gains from the prior day following Trump’s announcement of a massive, $500 billion AI infrastructure project called Stargate. The project will be funded by Oracle,
SoftBank Group shares jumped after the company and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced plans to invest up to half a trillion dollars in artificial-intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. Shares rose 8.8% to 10,060 yen, or equivalent to $64.69, on Wednesday in Tokyo, after climbing as much as 9.2% earlier, to their highest level since July.
OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.
Former SoftBank exec Akshay Naheta's startup, Distributed Technologies Research, is trying to bridge the gap between banking and blockchain tech. Akshay Naheta, a former SoftBank dealmaker, builds new-age pipes to modernize global payment networks.