In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.

Trump was joined by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who said the investment would start with $100 billion, plus a goal of $500

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

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.

OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.

President Donald Trump talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to AI by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

O SoftBank Group negocia para investir até US$ 25 bilhões na OpenAI, um movimento que poderia torná-lo o maior patrocinador da startup de inteligência artificial.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $25 billion from SoftBank amid DeepSeek shock.

SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI. The deal would make it the start-up’s biggest financial backer. At the same time, the two companies are also partnering on a separate massive AI infrastructure project. Here to explain what all this says about SoftBank’s AI ambitions is the FT’s Arash Massoudi. Hi, Arash.

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.