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SoftBank Is Buying Bitcoin Again, After $130M Loss in 2018. Is This Time Different?
Flashback to 2019, SoftBank made headlines when its founder, Masayoshi Son, took a gigantic loss on a personal bitcoin investment. Son had taken exposure to cryptocurrency in late 2017, when the ICO ...
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Why is tech giant SoftBank investing over $100 billion in the US?
Son, a founder and CEO of SoftBank Group, is known for making bold choices ... Son built his fortune on early investments in search engine Yahoo and China's Alibaba, an astute initial outlay ...
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How Is SoftBank Funding Its Mega Investment in OpenAI? A Lot of Debt
Global tech investor SoftBank Group 9984-2.33%decrease; red down pointing triangle is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday ...
OpenAI to raise $40 billion in SoftBank-led round to boost AI efforts
OpenAI said on Monday it would raise up to $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group at a $300 billion valuation to advance AI research, expand computational infrastructure and enhance ...
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OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in round led by SoftBank
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off rivals like Elon Musk’s xAI and China ... from a group of investors ...
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AI and Trump 2.0 propel SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son back into the spotlight
The occasion for Son’s star turn in the White House Roosevelt Room on Jan. 21 was an announcement that SoftBank Group, Son’s Tokyo ... based in Hangzhou, China, had developed an AI model ...