According to Financial Times, Softbank is talking about an extensive partnership that a large Japanese company can spend more than $ 40 billion in AI Initiatives to invest up to $ 25 billion in OpenAI.
The report says potential investment will be the largest single supporter of Softbank Openai, which surpasses Microsoft, which first invested in CHATGPT manufacturers in 2019. Openai’s project that can expand to $ 500 billion over four years.
Softbank plans to invest $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion in Openai, in addition to the $ 15 billion Stargate promise, according to the report. Openai will invest about $ 15 billion in Stargate, and Softbank’s stock investments potentially deal with Openai’s infrastructure promises.
The talks were built by a Chinese company, Deepseek, was built with a relatively humble budget at the time of launching the R1 “reasoning” model and swearing the public market this week.
Chip large company NVIDIA lost $ 58.9 billion a day before a slight recovery. Investors were worried that if the company could get similar results with less resources, it would not require a big investment in expensive AI hardware.
Openai discovered evidence that DeepSeek used the R1 and other models through the technology of “distillation” using the OPENAI monopoly model this week, which makes it possible for the developer to achieve similar performance at a smaller model at a much lower cost. Can. The company said it would violate the terms and conditions that prohibit the use of output to develop a competitive model.
The Financial Times is the biggest bet of Softbank’s founder Masayoshi Son after injecting $ 16 billion into the WEWORK after the Financial Times is uninstalled. In addition, Microsoft agrees to give up its position as an exclusive cloud provider of Openai, and will reduce the dependence on Microsoft for resource computing.
About 20%of Stargate’s funds are expected to be assets, and the rest will be raised through debt on assets and cash flows, the report said. Openai, which reached $ 157 billion last year, is also negotiating to become a profit company to promote additional funds.
