{"id":47434,"date":"2026-04-28T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/47434\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:20:25","slug":"softbank-in-discussions-to-invest-30-billion-more-in-openai-says-report-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/47434\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank in discussions to invest $30 billion more in OpenAI, says report – what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to invest as much as another $30 billion in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n

The move by SoftBank <\/a>reflects CEO Masayoshi Son’s ambitions to play a key role in developing artificial intelligence, which has taken over the world over the last few years.<\/p>\n

The Japanese conglomerate, which is already one of the largest backers of the ChatGPT-maker, is adding to its stake in the company, people familiar with the matter told WSJ.<\/p>\n

According to a separate report by Reuters quoting people with knowledge of the development, SoftBank is in deliberations to commit more capital toward the fast-growing startup.<\/p>\n

The maximum amount SoftBank is considering is $30 billion, Reuters and WSJ reported quoting people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

As per Reuters, the people cautioned that the discussions are fluid and the amount of funding could change. SoftBank\u2019s shares rose 5.8% in Tokyo Wednesday.<\/p>\n

OpenAI<\/a>, known widely for creating AI chatbot ChatGPT, is seeking up to $100 billion in new capital from investors, the WSJ previously reported.<\/p>\n

According to that report, the investment round could value the company to as much as $830 billion if OpenAI succeeds in raising the funds.<\/p>\n

SoftBank’s share in OpenAI<\/p>\n

Masayoshi Son<\/a> has been unwinding positions to increase its stake in OpenAI and ready capital for sweeping investments aimed at injecting AI in all devices.<\/p>\n

SoftBank sold its stake in Nvidia Corp. and recently hit pause on talks to buy out US data centre operator Switch Inc.<\/p>\n

The Tokyo-based company had amassed an 11% stake in OpenAI, injecting $22.5 billion just last month.<\/p>\n

SoftBank has sharply increased its bets in AI in recent months. Over the past year, the Tokyo-based company has bought US chip designer Ampere Computing LLC for $6.5 billion and announced a $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB Ltd.\u2019s robotics unit. To finance some of that cost, SoftBank has sold down its T-Mobile US Inc. shares, unloaded its entire Nvidia stake and expanded a margin loan using its Arm shares.<\/p>\n

SoftBank\u2019s investments in AI, along with the sharp drop in the value of Arm shares at the end of last year, are heaping pressure on its creditworthiness, S&P Global Ratings warned earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Despite being early to invest in AI technologies, SoftBank has largely missed out on a global rush to build the semiconductors, server racks and other hardware to support machine learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to invest as much as another $30 billion in Sam Altman’s OpenAI,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[552,1811,682,613,581,2986,29697,29696,13769],"class_list":{"0":"post-47434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-masayoshi-son","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-invest","10":"tag-masayoshi-son","11":"tag-openai","12":"tag-sam-altman","13":"tag-softbank-group","14":"tag-softbank-invest-in-openai","15":"tag-softbank-openai","16":"tag-softbank-openai-investment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116481833194632568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}