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

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.

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 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 ...

Masayoshi Son said that SoftBank was like the goose that turned regular eggs into golden goose eggs and even broke into a little dance during his presentation. SoftBank Vision Fund will now focus ...

"My own investment judgment was really bad. I regret it in many ways," CEO Masayoshi Son said at a news conference, according to the Wall Street Journal. SoftBank reduced its overall valuation of ...

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 ...