Some of the funding would be used to help cover OpenAI’s $18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.

When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque ...

Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the ...

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese ...

SoftBank said in a press release that it plans to automate over 100 million workflows among its companies, which could ...

It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI, will spend $3 billion deploying OpenAI tech across SoftBank companies, ...

The SoftBank boss could throw another $25 billion into the artificial intelligence company, according to a Financial Times ...

SoftBank’s potential investments in Stargate and OpenAI have been in discussion for months. If Son spends $40bn or more, it ...

It could be one of the biggest private computing infrastructure projects in history — or a disaster.

The AI expert’s remarks come as OpenAI and other Silicon Valley giants face a reckoning following DeepSeek’s success.

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

SoftBank is in talks to inject up to $25 billion directly into OpenAI, positioning the Japanese tech conglomerate to become ...