Billionaires Altman and Son bet big on each other
Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the biggest backer ...
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and OpenAI’s Sam Altman bet on AI — and each other
When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque ...
PE, VC funds in a bind; OpenAI goes deep
Sebis regulations regarding preferential treatment of large investors pose a dilemma to private equity (PE) and venture ...
SoftBank’s AI bromance
Plus, an anaemic start to the year for dealmaking in the US and talks over a $58bn Japanese carmaker deal fall apart ...
SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI’s Agents Will Automate Work
SoftBank said in a press release that it plans to automate over 100 million workflows among its companies, which could ...
Masayoshi Son Picks Odd Time To Bet Big On OpenAI
The SoftBank boss could throw another $25 billion into the artificial intelligence company, according to a Financial Times ...
Sam Altman’s Stargate is science fiction
It could be one of the biggest private computing infrastructure projects in history — or a disaster.
The 8 things most people missed about DeepSeek
DeepSeek is an economic revolution and geopolitical wake-up call, but that doesn't directly bring us any closer to artificial ...
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AGI will arrive ‘much earlier’ than he thought
It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI, will spend $3 billion deploying OpenAI tech across SoftBank companies, ...
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The 8 things most people missed about DeepSeek
Masayoshi Son’s reportedly investing as much as $25 billion into OpenAI on a valuation of up ... on a par with his $4 billion investment in WeWork at $47 billion, an overweighting on a ...