SoftBank is in talks to lead a funding round for artificial intelligence robotics start-up Skild AI that would more than double its valuation to close to $4bn, as Masayoshi Son hunts for deals to match his vaunted ambitions for the sector.
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SoftBank in talks to lead OpenAI funding round at $300 billion valuation, sources say
Softbank in talks to invest up to US$25bn in OpenAI
Softbank Group Corp is in talks to invest up to US$25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.
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SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25 billion in OpenAI
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On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce Stargate, a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project in the United States. He called it the "largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history."
Nvidia dipped 0.8% after initially gaining, following a nearly 17% plunge on Monday—its worst drop since the 2020 COVID crash.
Global technology stocks tumbled on Tuesday, extending a selloff into a second day as the debut of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model
SoftBank Group shares jumped after the company and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced plans to invest up to half a trillion dollars in artificial-intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. Shares rose 8.8% to 10,060 yen, or equivalent to $64.69, on Wednesday in Tokyo, after climbing as much as 9.2% earlier, to their highest level since July.
The recovery came after US chipmaker Nvidia closed up 9 per cent on Tuesday, recouping some of the heavy losses that wiped $600bn off its market capitalisation at the start of the week, when investors fretted over the threat from China’s DeepSeek to the US supremacy in artificial intelligence.
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OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center projectOpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.
A major tech stock sell-off ensued Monday as the debut of DeepSeek rattled investors. Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft were among the biggest losers.
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
Some of the funding would be used to help cover OpenAI’s $18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.
The cause of investors’ panic was DeepSeek, an obscure Chinese hedge fund turned AI startup that has blown analysts away with its latest large language model, R1, released on January 20th. Consumers have flocked to DeepSeek’s chatbot,
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