Participation in the Stargate project, which is designed to attract $ 500 billion in four years to create advanced AI infrastructure in the United States, for the Japanese Corporation SoftBank is not the only purpose in the near future. According to Financial Times, the SoftBank leadership is negotiating with Openai on investment in capital of the latter up to $ 25 billion.
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Until now, the Microsoft Corporation has been considered the largest investor of Openai, which invested about $ 13 billion in the starting starter that created the ChatGPT. As Bloomberg notes with reference to the sources familiar with the negotiations, it is considering the possibility of investing in Openai capital to $ 25 billion. These funds are not related The $ 19 billion that will be allocated to SoftBank for the implementation of the Stargate project, which is the control partner of which is Openai. Representatives of the mentioned companies did not comment on Bloomberg in any way, the success of negotiations is also not guaranteed.
The Japanese Corporation SoftBank, whose head of Masayoshi Son is managed by the Vision Fund Foundation, has long been interested in the possibility of investment in Openai, he even met in the head of the startup Sam Altman in 2019 and offered $ 1 billion, but the deal did not take place then. Through Vision Fund, Sonu later managed to invest about $ 500 million in Openai, and last month this fund proposed to redeem Openai shares totaling $ 1.5 billion from a startup officers. As of the end of September, SoftBank had approximately $ 25 billion of free funds, as well as shares of many companies, including the British Holding ARM, which even after an IPO belongs to the Japanese corporation by about 90 %. Masayoshi Song as a whole intends to send $ 100 billion to the development of American infrastructure and economics during the reign of Trump.