OpenAI is looking to expand beyond the US. Consequently, the company has announced that it will invest in infrastructure initiatives abroad through partnerships with governments to train and deploy their Artificial Intelligence models in various regions.
The company will collaborate with governments from different countries to support the development of data centers, as well as to adapt its AI tools to specific languages and local needs, according to the company’s announcement.
Sam Altman, founder and CEO of OpenAI, described this effort as “commercial diplomacy” and noted that funding for these initiatives would come from both OpenAI and the governments of each country, although the locations of these 10 international projects were not specified.
A few months ago, during the AI Action Summit in Paris, the company introduced OpenAI for Countries, a proposal that garnered interest from various nations due to the importance of creating their own version of the Stargate project.
It’s important to recall that Stargate was unveiled at the White House in January this year and represents an ambitious plan by OpenAI to invest 500,000 million dollars (through corporations like SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX) over the next four years to build infrastructure focused on developing large-scale AI.
While these new 10 projects and Stargate will be independent, they are actually ideas that link OpenAI in its global initiative to develop AI globally and ensure its technology is used in a “democratic” manner, the company stated.
According to a post on their blog, many countries desire infrastructure of this magnitude.
“They want their own Stargates and similar projects. It is now clear to everyone that this type of infrastructure will be the backbone of future economic growth and national development,” the company indicated.
Chris Lehane, Vice President of Global Policy at the company, emphasized that the tasks of this initiative could vary according to the needs of each country, as some might require building data centers, while others may need to optimize existing ones for specific AI workloads.
“I think there will probably be different variants. Each one will be tailored to some extent to the needs of each nation,” commented Lehane, who also highlighted the participation of the U.S. government in determining where OpenAI’s technology can be implemented.
Although on paper it appears as an initiative to widen the use of AI worldwide, it should be noted that the project Stargate aims to prevent China from becoming the main competitor in the technological race.
Therefore, the idea of OpenAI expanding to other countries is particularly significant at a time when nations around the world are evaluating whether to use American or Chinese AI models, such as DeepSeek.
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