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

After getting epically roasted by the AI industry, OpenAI is seemingly refusing to reevaluate its approach, asking investors to close their eyes and give them another $40 billion anyway, pretty please.

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,

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

Japanese multinational conglomerate, SoftBank, is said to be in advanced talks to invest as much as $25 billion in OpenAI . According to the Financial Times, the investment could be part of a larger partnership, where SoftBank would invest over $40 billion into AI initiatives with the ChatGPT creator.

President Donald Trump is supporting the newly formed Stargate to advance AI as construction on the company's first data center gets underway in Abilene.

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

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.

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This is a massive head start, and cultural symmetry that seemed to make American AI predestined. Open AI is backed by a US$14 billion investment from Microsoft, and has access to the cloud infrastructure that powers its Large Language Model.

SoftBank is in discussions to invest between $15 and $25 billion in OpenAI, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources. The deal, which has not been finalized, could make SoftBank the artificial intelligence company's biggest financial backer.