In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald ... This included office-sharing firm WeWork, which went bankrupt, and the hospitality chain Oyo Rooms, and Son shied away from the limelight. In the 2022-23 financial year, SoftBank's two ...

“I am Masayoshi Son, and SoftBank is not a bank ... Masa rode the wave, investing in U.S. tech behemoths such as Uber, WeWork and Slack, but also in Chinese powerhouses such as Didi Chuxing ...

Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle joined Trump for the $500 billion announcement.

The Stargate Project will also involve SoftBank Corp., the Japan-based investment firm of Masayoshi Son, who's backed ventures such as Uber and WeWork. The Stargate Project will be a new company ...

The Stargate Project will also involve SoftBank Corp., the Japan-based investment firm of Masayoshi Son, who's backed ventures such as Uber and WeWork. Oracle, which has a large campus in Austin ...

Masayoshi Son is the CEO and founder of tech and telecommunications ... Softbank was the biggest investor in WeWork, losing more than $4.7 billion after the coworking company's failed IPO.

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President ... This included office-sharing firm WeWork, which went bankrupt, and the hospitality chain Oyo Rooms, and Son shied away from the limelight.

Some of the funding would be used to help cover OpenAI’s $18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.

SoftBank is in talks to inject up to $25 billion directly into OpenAI, positioning the Japanese tech conglomerate to become the ChatGPT maker's largest financial backer, according to initial reporting from the Financial Times on Wednesday evening.

SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI. The deal would make it the start-up’s biggest financial backer. At the same time, the two companies are also partnering on a separate massive AI infrastructure project. Here to explain what all this says about SoftBank’s AI ambitions is the FT’s Arash Massoudi. Hi, Arash.