The Japanese corporation SoftBank Group has shown interest in investing as much as $25 billion in OpenAI, which would make it the organization’s biggest financial sponsor. According to a Bloomberg report,

SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.

When President Donald Trump joined tech executives on Tuesday to tout a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence project led in part by OpenAI, one question sprang to mind: Where’s Microsoft Corp.?

SoftBank reportedly is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI and become the ChatGPT creator’s largest investor.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the two AI leaders, Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman do not care for each other.

SoftBank is in talks to lead a funding round for artificial intelligence robotics start-up Skild AI that would more than double its valuation to close to $4bn, as Masayoshi Son hunts for deals to match his vaunted ambitions for the sector.

Japanese conglomerate already has a significant exposure to the AI sector through its ownership of British chip designer Arm Holdings and had previously hinted at developing its own generative AI tech

Shares of technology companies rose after a mixed batch of earnings. Shares of Microsoft slid after the software giant's cloud-computing unit's growth fell short of Wall Street analysts' projections.

SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) is currently in discussions to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI, which could position it as the AI startup's largest financial backer, according to a Financial Times report that cites people with knowledge of the matter.

The cause of investors’ panic was DeepSeek, an obscure Chinese hedge fund turned AI startup that has blown analysts away with its latest large language model, R1, released on January 20th. Consumers have flocked to DeepSeek’s chatbot,