Elon Musk claimed after the Stargate announcement that the private companies involved 'don't have the money' to fund the $500 billion; the likely motivation for this critique is that Musk views the Stargate partnership as creating distance between him and other AI leaders like OpenAI/Microsoft, so he denigrates the project to call it into question.

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Craig

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I think elon's motivation is probably a little bit that you know he's not at parity with the rest of these folks and so anything that creates even more distance he's probably not going to be very happy happy about and so he might choose to to denigrate what they're doing only for the purposes of calling it into question

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Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie with David Rubenstein: GenesisThe 92nd Street Y, New York
Created: 8/11/2026, 5:23:07 AM

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