OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states to accelerate the Stargate project championed by President Donald Trump.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that Texas will be the "flagship" data center site in the Stargate project it is building with SoftBank .

The initial data centers for the project are already under construction in Texas, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison had said then. OpenAI is far along in the process of selecting multiple locations in Texas for massive data center projects to support AI services, a company spokesperson told Bloomberg.

Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have developed a model that performs comparably to OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 models in math and coding — for less than $50 of cloud compute credits.

A team of researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have developed an AI reasoning model, s1, for less than $50. This is a massive achievement, given the notion that significant financial resources are essential for developing AI reasoning models.

OpenAI cofounder John Schulman has left rival artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, a job he held for about six months.

John Schulman, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI, has left rival firm Anthropic, a job he held since the summer.