OpenAI’s Stargate plans to sell ‘democratic AI’ to the world—while enhancing its soft global power. Will it work?
In January, the CEO of Openai Sam Altman stood next to President Trump, Softbank and Oracle to announce a $ 500 million plan to build data centers in the United States so far, the huge project, called Stargate, has not been prevented, Time Time is first planned in the development of AII. Although the plan, called Openai for countries, was short in the details, it is long on rhetoric to both Openai and the United States as charitable representatives in the face of authoritarian regimes such as China.
The company said it wants to spread “democratic intelligence” or “democratic intelligence that protects and combines long -term democratic principles.” This includes “people’s freedom to choose how they work with and direct artificial intelligence, and prevent the government’s use of artificial intelligence to collect control, and the free market that guarantees free competition.”
The effort, Openai continued, “will contribute to the wide distribution of the benefits of artificial intelligence, inhibit the concentration of power, and helps in strengthening our mission.” He said that the partnership closely with the United States government is “the best way to enhance democratic intelligence.”
More importantly, the blog post, which announces the expanded Stargate, said the goal is to create data centers abroad; And the presentation of versions of Chatgpt Chatgpt from Openai which are allocated to the language and culture of each country. It also promised to enhance security and safety from artificial intelligence and launch national operating funds in local financing and Openai Capital.
The initiative is compatible with the efforts made by the Trump administration to win what it considers to be the artificial artificial intelligence race at any cost – to protect the American economy as well as prevailing in the geopolitical chess game against China. “I think it is an indication that we understand what is at stake,” said Daniel Newman, CEO of Analysts, The Futurum Group in an email, meaning that the global economic leadership in the future. He referred to a recent letter from the US Treasury Secretary Scott Beesen, in which he said, “We must win artificial intelligence and quantity, nothing else matters.”
He added that “victory” means gaining soft energy through artificial intelligence, noting that Chinese companies have previously used their technology to gain soft energy abroad. For example, “HUAWEI giant for Chinese technology won, for example,” has won a lot of global trade by winning COMMS and Telco networks. “
Kegan McBraide, chief policy consultant in emerging technology and political geography at the Tony Blair Institute, a non -profit consulting organization, said that American policy makers are concerned about the extensive efforts of China to build the digital infrastructure of important parts of the world. This was particularly disturbing after the January release of the Chinese Deepseek R1 thinking model, which was said to work equally with the best American models. He has made it clear that the capabilities of artificial intelligence in China were growing quickly. After release Deepseek and other models such as Qwen’s alibaba, other Chinese models were also published all over the world. Since the models were openly available to developers to build on them, instead of the closed models issued by Openai, Google and HotHropic, they gained great momentum.
“This is that the US government wakes up and reaffirms that when it comes to digital technology, countries must choose the United States as its main partner,” he said in an email. luck About the Openai International Initiative. He added that Michael Kratsosius, director of the White House Science and Technology Policy Office (OSTP) recently supported the promotion of American males abroad. In a recent speech, he said: “Our industrial strength, which I launched at home, and our artificial achievements from artificial intelligence to space, which were successfully marketed, can be strong tools for diplomacy abroad and the main components of our international alliances.”
It is clear that one of the main partners in “AI Diplomacy” is Openai, who, in the process of financing the Amnesty International Infrastructure abroad, will also enhance its global soft power as it seeks to expand a huge multinational company. This comes a few days after the company’s curvature of external pressure by announcing that its non -profit arm will retain the control of its commercial operations. The decision is a major reflection of Openai, who originally wanted to restructure itself to more traditional work.
The key to acquiring soft energy is a multi -efforts strategy, according to Pierre Karl Lanzel, founder of the Paris -based AI Pleias Laboratory, which focuses on developing Amnesty International Open Models trained in public licensed data groups. This includes Openai’s plans to release its open source model this summer to compete with the likes of Deepseek and the other artificial intelligence leader in China, QWEN. The launch of a common model with “weights” is open, or the minds behind the model, would help Openai in spreading its technology because the model will be free to use any developer to build on it and work with it. “I see it partially as a deep post -attack,” Langlel said, adding that it is like how Amazon’s Aws, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have published cloud computing over the past two decades by “providing a lot of credits and then you are closed.”
So far, Openai has not said whether any country has signed the start of the global Stargate. Obayye said the ultimate goal is 10 projects with the allies. While Softbank is providing funding for Stargate in the United States, Openai’s developments abroad will be funded by a “customized set of partners” in each project, Financial times I mentioned. It is not clear whether these partners will be companies or countries, or both.
The big question, of course, is this offensive action in Openai in Openai – especially when there are probably important chains using their services? It may be a gateway for countries to reach the most advanced artificial intelligence models in Openai, as well as the most advanced graphics processing units in NVIDIA. At the present time, some countries, even allies such as India and Israel, cannot reach them due to the increasing export controls. But yesterday, Bloomberg stated that the Trump administration plans to cancel some of these restrictions, which NVIDIA objected to, in particular.
But if Stargate is placed as an Openai global infrastructure, participants in their new initiative may be required to comply with some American policies to reach. Unlike the ideal partnerships of the companies, it is not related to businessmen-it is related to national governments that cooperate with Openai to reach advanced AI technology. If Openai’s ecological system becomes the only viable gateway to countries that get the most advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, it may expose its control to its data and technology. It also raises deeper questions about human rights, including the privacy of data and monitoring at the state level, as well as the geopolitical considerations involved in the use of the Amnesty International -controlled infrastructure.
“Building artificial intelligence competing with the needs of ordinary people in their own in their own ability to provide real value,” said Miranda Bougin, director of the AI Intelligence Governance Laboratory at the Center for democracy and Technology, a non -profit organization based in Washington, DC, which defends digital rights and freedom of expression. “But partnership with national countries raises serious questions about how to protect human rights from the government’s demands. This has been a prestigious challenge for technology companies over the past two decades; it will be more healthy with artificial intelligence.”
But as the United States pushed the dominance of artificial intelligence, Openai may search beyond merely create “democratic intelligence”. You may also look forward to filling their critical gaps in artistic research that will help them integrate more soft power while continuing its mission to develop its copy of artificial public intelligence (AGI), or Amnesty International, which corresponds to or exceeds human capabilities in various tasks.
Langlais pointed out that although many of the financing of artificial intelligence has been converted into building requests for Amnesty International, constituent research is still unreasonable. Stargate extension can create research and development centers where Openai can target local startups with deep technical experience to rent acquisition and strategic partnerships.
And yes, [that would] It is clear that it enhances the centralization of Openai.
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2025-05-07 20:39:00
