Oracle founder Larry Ellison said the massive artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project dubbed Stargate is helping to fuel the development of a cancer vaccine.
President Donald Trump announced this week that Oracle, OpenAI and Softbank joined forces to launch Stargate, which will build data centers in the U.S. to power AI.
Ellison, also Oracle’s chief technology office, said during an interview that his company is leveraging tools from OpenAI and Softbank to develop a cancer vaccine.
“One of the most exciting things we’re working on – again using the tools that Sam and Masa are providing – is our cancer vaccine,” Ellison said during a news conference with Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday.
Ellison said early cancer detection can be provided with a simple blood test, and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to look at the blood test and find the cancers that are seriously threatening someone’s health.