According to Financial Times, SoftBank is investing up to $ 25 billion Openai as a part of a wide range of partnerships that Japanese Konglomarit can spend more than $ 40 billion on AI Initiative.
The report has reported that the potential investment will be SoftBank Openai's largest single backer, exceeding Microsoft, which was first invested in Chatgpt manufacturers in 2019. Transactions will be made last week after announcing that the US data center will invest in $ 100 billion in STARGATE. Openai project that can be expanded to $ 500 billion in four years.
SoftBank reports that in addition to $ 15 billion Stargate commitment, it will invest $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion in Openai. Openai invests about $ 15 billion in Stargate, and SoftBank's stock investment may cover Openai infrastructure commitments.
This lecture occurred when the Chinese company, Deepseek, released the R1 “Reasoning” model built on a relatively modest budget, and rattled this week.
Investors were worried that if they could achieve similar results with smaller resources, they might not need large -scale investment in expensive AI hardware, so the chip major NVIDIA was a little recovered. I lost $ 58.9 billion a day.
Earlier this week, Openai claimed that Deepseek had used Openai's unique model to find evidence that it had used Openai's proprietary models to train R1 and other models through a method called “distillation”. The company states that this violates the Terms of Use and prohibits the use of output to develop competing models.
According to Financial Times, Openai's contract with SoftBank has not been confirmed, but the biggest betting of SoftBank's founder Masayoshi Son is in the Wework. Microsoft has recently reduced Microsoft's dependence on Microsoft, as Openai has recently abandoned his position as an exclusive cloud provider.
Approximately 20 % of Stargate funds are expected to be shares, and the remaining reports are provided through debt secured by assets and cash flow. Last year, Openai, which reached $ 157 billion, has negotiated to become a profitable company to promote additional funding.
