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SoftBank which is leading the deal will initially be investing $7.5 billion in the company along with $2.5 billion from an investor syndicate.

Leading OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round shows the tech investor's knack for seizing big opportunities.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he believes artificial general intelligence (AGI), artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence in almost all areas, will be realized within 10 years.

As he speaks with Forbes India in early April, Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s maverick founder and CEO, is pouring billions into US President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) project ...

In 1981, at the age of 24, Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank as a software distribution company. What began as a three-person operation quickly gained momentum. Within two years, SoftBank had grown ...

Not far from the storied venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, there’s a palatial estate where Masayoshi Son, Silicon Valley’s newest kingmaker, shapes the future. Reaching him requires ...

The Tokyo-based company, led by billionaire Masayoshi Son, said it expected its first $10 billion chunk of the deal would be financed by borrowing from Japanese bank Mizuho and other lenders and ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a public hiring call on social media, inviting engineers and computing specialists to join the company as it ramps up development efforts following a major funding ...

Last year, SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son had stated plans of raising a new $100 billion fund every two to three years, and invest around $50 billion each year. Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar ...

OpenAI has finalised a $40 billion funding round from Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp and ... way towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a talk session ...

While some of the featured leaders were ones you’d expect—cabinet nominees, congressional leaders, megadonor Elon Musk—at least one was a surprise: Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire ...