Muscan rivalry that complicates Trump’s deals in the Middle East

Elon Musk tried to disrupt the major Artificial intelligence CNBC confirmed that the infrastructure in the Middle East, learning that its startup, XAI would be excluded from the initiative.

Earlier this month Openai, Oracle. Nvidia. Cisco And firm Emirati G42 announced plans to build a wide Star stone AI in the United Arab Emirates. Musk was disappointed that Openai, led by Sam Altman’s personal competitor, was involved in this deal, and he intervened, trying to participate in XAI, said a man acquainted with this question, who asked him not to call him freely.

Musk claimed the president Donald Trump Do not approve the deal, said the man. The announcement was detained for a few days when the parties, including the White House, considered an appeal from Musk, which was engaged in a public and legal plus with Altman and Opny.

A Wall Street Journal It was first reported that Musk tried to block the deal.

In a statement by CNBC, the White House press -secretary Carolyn did not mention the dust.

“The United States and the UAE have signed the most important framework that establishes the first AI acceleration partnership,” Levita said. “The frame is promoting the construction of the II infrastructure in the US and the UAE. It was another big deal for the American people, thanks to President Trump and his exceptional team.”

Musk was not in the UAE when the deal was signed, but was with the President in Saudi Arabia during the previous part of the trip in the Middle East, a high -ranking White House official reports. According to the official, Musk conveyed its concern about the government, which is fair to all AI companies.

Openai refused to comment. Musk did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

Musk which is also the CEO Tesla and Spaceis a complex nature in Trump’s efforts to strengthen US leadership in II. Musk spent nearly $ 300 million to send President Trump back to the White House, and has since headed the government’s efficiency department (DOGE), reducing the size of the federal labor. Its time as a special government officer fit to the end This month.

When it comes to II, Musk in recent years was a vocal critic Altman, a former friend and colleague. The couple helped to create Openai as a research laboratory in 2015, but later Musk had a public break with the project and invariably criticized its structure and closed the union with Microsoft.

While XAI creates his commercial effort acquisition Social Media Music Company X in March and this week partner With Telegram, to deploy its Grok Chatbot, Musk tries to disrupt Openai efforts to go to a non -profit organization.

Aski is are suing the court to court Openai for violation of the contract and try to stop the transformation, and a group of investors under the guidance of Musk made an unsuccessful application for buying a startup control over $ 97.4 billion in February.

This is also not the first time Musk was critical of StarGate.

In January, Trump introduced the Stargate project, with Openai. Oracle and Soft banks Having made the initial $ 100 billion and up to $ 500 billion in investment in the US infrastructure for four years. Musk quickly began to doubt the financing of the project.

“They don’t really have no money,” Musk wrote in response to the Openai message on his X. Social Platform later he added that SoftBank “Good under” $ 10 billion.

After two months SoftBank take Investing $ 40 billion in Openai with $ 300 billion.

– Eamon Javen in this report contributed to CNBC.

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