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Leading OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round shows the tech investor's knack for seizing big opportunities.
Japanese technology investment group SoftBank Group plans to raise 600 billion yen ($4.10 billion) by issuing bonds to retail ...
The company at the heart of the artificial-intelligence revolution, OpenAI, just raised money at a $300 billion valuation, as ...
The U.S. and China have dominated the AI race to date, but Japan now aims to catch up with the help of major deals and high-profile partnerships. Its strong industrial policies and powerful tech ...
SoftBank considers $16.5B loan for US AI ambitions, may help lead $40B funding round in OpenAI, valuing it at $300B. Japan's ...
Softbank stock lost 12.3% on Japan’s stock exchange today amid ongoing global market turmoil. Softbank Banks on Debt to Fund Investments The new bonds are set to expire in May 2030, with yields ...
Japan's SoftBank buys US chip startup Ampere Follows announced investments in OpenAI and Stargate project Aims to develop greater computing power for AI The all-cash deal announced on Wednesday ...
This is one of the ways the Japan-based investment firm is exploring to finance its $500-billion AI infrastructure project in the United States.
Huang and Son announced that SoftBank would be the first customer to use Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which would be used to develop an artificial intelligence supercomputer in Japan. SoftBank ...
($1 = 146.0600 yen) (Bloomberg) -- A Holdings Corp., a holding company owned equally by Japan’s SoftBank Corp. and South Korea’s Naver Corp., plans to sell down its stake via LY Corp.’s ¥ ...
OpenAI in a blog post said it raised $40 billion from Japan's SoftBank that values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion. It comes as the company is unveiling new and more powerful models.
a joint venture with OpenAI to develop AI services in Japan for corporate customers. Ampere makes data center central processing unit (CPU) chips based on a computing architecture from SoftBank's ...