Key Takeaways Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese multinational investment company SoftBank Group,has an estimated net ...

From visionary bets in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm, to disastrous gambles on WeWork and Vision Funds, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son ...

In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi ... OpenAI’s strategy of spending big on proprietary technology ...

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 ...

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son on Monday said he has agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to set up a joint venture in Japan ...

SoftBank's investment in OpenAI may position the company as the world's joint-second most valuable private tech firm after ...

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI are stepping up their partnership in artificial intelligence, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan.

SoftBank will invest multiple billions of dollars in OpenAI's ChatGPT tech, which is great news for AI hardware development plans.

OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a massive funding round led by SoftBank that would value the artificial intelligence firm at $340 billion, according to a report. The funding ...

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OpenAI‘s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son during a news conference earlier this month at the White House. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by ...