giving SoftBank ownership of most of the company. Neumann would remain as the sole largest shareholder outstanding. The deal amounted to the largest ever US buyout and investment in a US start-up.

SoftBank is preparing to lead fresh investment into OpenAI at a $300 billion valuation, Business Insider understands — a move that would value the ChatGPT maker the same as TikTok owner ByteDance.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during the SoftBank World 2023 event in Tokyo, Japan.. Photo: Getty Images SoftBank, the venture capital firm that came to epitomize the hypergrowth era of ...

SoftBank was left with a 24% stake in the combined business. After divesting some of its ownership, SoftBank owned about 7.3% of T-Mobile in late 2024, according to regulatory filings. Divesting ...

OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a massive funding round led by SoftBank that would value the artificial intelligence firm at $340 billion, according to a report. The funding ...

(News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI.) SoftBank is taking on a lot of risks for a piece of OpenAI. Ratings agency S&P Global said Tuesday ...

Arm’s public offering is looming—and there could be a lot riding on this IPO as the largest public offering of the year and a key company in SoftBank’s portfolio. Earlier this week ...

SoftBank is reportedly close to buying Ampere ... neutrality and SoftBank’s long-term strategy SoftBank, the Japanese owner of Arm, is close to acquiring Ampere Computing, a company that ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - SoftBank (9984.T), opens new tab is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Japanese conglomerate ...

Softbank’s chief executive ... The Cost of Criticising Musk: Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet. The Trade-Adverse Trade Adviser: Once ...

SoftBank was always the most likely suitor, and it has now been confirmed as the new owner of Graphcore having splashed out somewhere between $400 and $500 million for company. The exact price ...

seven years after its owner SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), opens new tab took the company private for $32 billion. The IPO represents a climb-down from the $64 billion valuation at which SoftBank ...