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SoftBank CEO says he's 'all in' on OpenAI, reveals he's long wanted Microsoft's spot as main backer
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son used a shareholders' meeting on Friday to discuss the company’s belief in OpenAI and the coming of ...
Not Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, ‘this AI company will be world’s most valuable’ says SoftBank founder
SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has called Sam Altman’s OpenAI as “the most valuable company in the world” while ...
SoftBank backs giant floating climate stations startup
A startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons that float in the stratosphere has raised $15 million from Japan’s ...
A SoftBank-backed founder says startups and public companies need 'fundamentally different people'
Johannes Reck, the CEO of GetYourGuide, says people who are "incredibly effective" at Meta or Google may not thrive in a ...
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SoftBank Commits $32B to OpenAI, Eyes Global AI Leadership
SoftBank Group (TYO:9984) is positioning itself as a global leader in the artificial superintelligence (ASI) era, with CEO ...
SoftBank Unit Plans First Dollar Bond for $1 Billion
SoftBank Group Corp.’s telecommunications unit plans to make its first offering of US dollar-denominated bonds, with Morgan ...
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SoftBank teams up with startup Sceye for stratospheric push
US-based aerospace startup Sceye has raised $15 million from Japan’s SoftBank, SoftBank gains exclusive rights to use Sceye’s ...
SoftBank reportedly looking to launch a trillion-dollar AI and robotics industrial complex
The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI.
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SoftBank's Son narrows down successor to 'a few candidates'
TOKYO -- SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son has narrowed down his choice for a successor to a handful of people in ...