The Japanese corporation SoftBank Group has shown interest in investing as much as $25 billion in OpenAI, which would make it the organization’s biggest financial sponsor. According to a Bloomberg report,

SoftBank reportedly is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI and become the ChatGPT creator’s largest investor.

When President Donald Trump joined tech executives on Tuesday to tout a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence project led in part by OpenAI, one question sprang to mind: Where’s Microsoft Corp.?

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.

Davos | San Francisco | SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $US25 billion ($40 billion) into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.

Japanese conglomerate already has a significant exposure to the AI sector through its ownership of British chip designer Arm Holdings and had previously hinted at developing its own generative AI tech

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the two AI leaders, Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman do not care for each other.

Microsoft has revised key terms in its deal with OpenAI following the latter's joint venture with Oracle and SoftBank to build $500 billion of AI data centers in the US. The initiative, called Stargate,

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.

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.

Key tech stocks were a mixed bag in early trading Thursday after executives at Meta and Microsoft said they plan to keep pouring billions of dollars into AI – despite lingering anxiety over the