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

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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.

The deal is also a new piece in the grand AI plan being pieced together by Masayoshi Son ... Of course, like OpenAI, Son's ultimate ambition in AI is to realize AGI. In a new book on Son, former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 most powerful person in Silicon Valley Billionaire Masayoshi Son--not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg--has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control h ...

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 ...

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 ...