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.

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CSX is coming to San Francisco this spring, and starting today we’re accepting applications to join the cohort! If you’re a passionate and visionary crypto startup founder, we want to hear from you. Apply using the link in my next post. @a16zcrypto CSX is an intensive, in-person program for early-stage startups building with blockchain technologies. It focuses on the expertise, mentorship, and support startups need to build ambitious products across industries. Participating founders are connected with capital, a network of industry experts, and a cohort of leading web3 teams. Each week of CSX is focused on a different pillar of company-building, such as research and engineering, marketing and social strategy, go to market, and people best practices. Founders can go as deep as they need to on the components that matter most for their project, through workshops and 1:1 discussions with specialists from a16z crypto and other experienced operators. We invest a minimum of $500,000 in each company accepted to CSX. The CSX 04 program will start in April and end in June with a Demo Day event, where each company gets the opportunity to pitch their project to an audience of prominent investors, thought leaders, and executives from many of the top crypto companies. I can’t wait for the CSX 04 program to get started. The last day to apply is February 7th, so submit your application today, and I hope to see you in SF! 🌉

1/ Frontier Training: The Past, Present, and Future of Decentralized Training Often regarded as technically impossible, recent progress in decentralized training has wildly exceeded anyone's expectations of what can be done in high latency / slow bandwidth environments. Simply put, no area in crypto x AI is more exciting from a technical perspective than decentralized training. This thread will teach you everything you need to know about decentralized training, from where things are at right now to where I think they're headed in the not too distant future 🧵

🚀 Excited to unveil our partnership with CARV @carv_official to redefine Web3 gaming! By merging CARV’s modular data technology with Sparsity’s lightning speed infrastructure, we're paving the way for the next wave of immersive, real-time Web3 gaming. Stay tuned for what's next! 🌐 🎮 #Web3Gaming #FOCG #BlockchainInnovation #CARV #Sparsity

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