US tech titans Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are taking a prominent place in the new Trump era, but another player from another era -- Oracle boss Larry Ellison -- is making a surprise return.

President Trump unveiled the AI initiative on Tuesday alongside the executives of OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank.

A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project.

Musk slammed a Trump-backed $500 billion AI joint venture building out OpenAI’s artificial general intelligence.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son comment on President Trump’s Stargate AI investment project in an interview with FOX News anchor Bret Baier on ‘Special Report.

Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two billionaires that started on OpenAI’s board and is now testing Musk’s influence with the new presidential administration.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on social media Wednesday after the OpenAI boss took center stage at the White House to unveil his ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project. Appearing alongside Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son,

At a press conference capping his first full day back in the White House, Donald Trump stood beside three of the most influential executives in the world—Sam Altman of OpenAI, Larry Ellison of Oracle,

“They have to produce a lot of electricity and we will make it possible for them to get that production done very easily, at their own plants if they want,” Trump said. “At the AI plant they will build energy generation and that will be incredible.” It’s unclear if building energy operations inside an AI data center is possible in practice.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.