Shares of Japanese chip-related firms were feeling the heat on Monday. Today’s slump comes as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek gained traction with its updated AI model, raising fears about potential challenges to US technological dominance.

The $500 billion Stargate project will be critical to "maintain American leadership in AI," one of the partners said in a statement.

On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce Stargate, a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project in the United States. He called it the "largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history."

Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.

President Trump's support for AI boosts Nvidia's position, with Project Stargate driving growth in data centers and the Blackwell chip powering next-gen AI. Read more here.

The past few years have been undeniably profitable for Nvidia ( NVDA 4.43%) investors. The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap. The stock was up as much as 4.7% Wednesday morning. At 12:32 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 4.1%.

Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle, and other AI-related companies surged Wednesday after the Trump administration’s announcement of a $500 billion joint venture spurred optimism about a rising tide of AI investments.

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OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.

SoftBank, Oracle and others have very big artificial-intelligence spending plans with very little detail. Investors are very pleased. On Tuesday, the new Trump administration said the companies wou

SoftBank Group shares jumped after the company and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced plans to invest up to half a trillion dollars in artificial-intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. Shares rose 8.8% to 10,060 yen, or equivalent to $64.69, on Wednesday in Tokyo, after climbing as much as 9.2% earlier, to their highest level since July.

SoftBank Group Corp. (TYO:9984) and OpenAI have each pledged $19 billion to Stargate, a groundbreaking technology initiative focused on AI data centers, The Information reports. OpenAI and SoftBank will each hold a