SoftBank Group Corp. aims to increase its stake in OpenAI by acquiring up to $1.5 billion in shares from the startup’s employees, according to people familiar with the matter.

Leading the funding round in OpenAI would mean a bold bet for SoftBank, the global tech investor and its CEO Masayoshi Son, whose group has about $30 billion in cash to deploy, according to ...

SoftBank Group 9984 1.61 % increase; green up pointing triangle is doubling down on its investment in OpenAI, taking a bigger bet on the potential of artificial intelligence as the technology ...

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI are stepping up their partnership in artificial intelligence, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan.

Consider this: OpenAI and the SoftBank Group have formed the SB OpenAI Japan venture, with each party holding 50% in the new entity. Per the Associated Press, Son talked about Cristal, ...

Three weeks after unveiling a massive data-center project with OpenAI that could run to half a trillion dollars, global tech investor SoftBank Group didn’t have many answers about the details of one ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI stepped up their AI partnership Monday, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan. SoftBank Chief Masayoshi Son and ...