OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed he visited Stargate’s first data center site in Abilene, Texas, which is still moving forward and under development by Oracle.

As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.

In a historic step forward for artificial intelligence and international collaboration, G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank and Cisco announced their partnership to build Stargate UAE. Stargate UAE is a next-generation AI infrastructure cluster that will run in the newly established 5-gigawatt UAE–U.

It’s been three months since SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman promised during a White House briefing to swiftly deploy $100 billion, and raise that figure to $500 billion

As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman toured the Middle East with Donald Trump, promoting a regional "Stargate Project," a quieter but equally profound AI revolution was unfolding in China. At its center is not a headline-chasing and media-hungry founder,