The SoftBank boss could throw another $25 billion into the artificial intelligence company, according to a Financial Times report on Thursday. Click to read.
Some of the funding would be used to help cover OpenAI’s $18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.
Musk said Tesla robotaxis with unsupervised Full Self Driving technology will begin picking up fares in Austin, Texas, beginning this June. The Tesla CEO gushed over autonomous vehicle safety even as the NHTSA continues numerous probes into myriad versions of Tesla’s automated driving technologies.
Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese media technology conglomerate, is often cast as a dreamer, financial engineer, and speculator. But his career — which has spanned the launch of the personal computer and internet,
US tech giants are in panic mode as Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's latest model surpasses OpenAIs ChatGPT on Apples US App Store. President Donald Trump and tech leaders announced the $500 billion 'Stargate' initiative to bolster US AI dominance by creating 100,
Appearing alongside Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, Altman discussed a joint venture to build advanced data centers in Texas that will power advanced AI ...
The initiative announced by President Donald Trump will aim to "secure American leadership in AI" while also creating jobs and economic benefit.
Japan's SoftBank is in talks to invest $15-25 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would make it the ChatGPT-maker's biggest financial backer, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is seeking to raise US$40 billion in a fresh round of funding that would value the startup at a staggering US$340 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (Jan 30).
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
Shares of technology companies rose after a mixed batch of earnings. Shares of Microsoft slid after the software giant's cloud-computing unit's growth fell short of Wall Street analysts' projections.