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Microsoft and OpenAI plan a $100 billion AI supercomputer code-named Stargate to power frontier models

The partners were highly sensitive about disclosing the budget.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus#157inAI

in hindsight, this was chump change

11:33 AM · Jun 8, 2026 · 12.6K Views
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Users question the sustainability of Microsoft and OpenAI's planned $100B Stargate AI supercomputer, citing rapid budget growth from $100B to $500B as evidence of unsustainable hype.

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Jessica Lessin@Jessicalessin

@GaryMarcus Totally - and to think how sensitive they were about the number

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Strata@ChainZenit

@GaryMarcus Classic cycle behavior, we’ve all been there.

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Newtee@Newtlx

@GaryMarcus The scale keeps shifting faster than anyone predicted

what looked like major commitments last year barely registers now

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とーい@toyboy_9a0

@GaryMarcus $100B → $500B in under a year. The only thing scaling reliably is the budget. When does the bubble pop?

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