SoftBank has committed to spending $3 billion per year to use OpenAI’s tech, according to a joint release released on Monday.

SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Monday that the company will assign 1,000 employees this year to the joint venture, SB OpenAI Japan, to kick-start its sales and engineering work.

SoftBank is in talks to invest in OpenAI, potentially deepening the relationship between the two companies that are already ...

SoftBank Group is deepening its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions through a new $3 billion deal with OpenAI, reinforcing ...

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the ...

US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called “deep research” that can produce detailed reports, as China’s ...

OpenAI announced a joint venture in Japan, named SB OpenAI Japan, aimed at delivering advanced AI solutions to enterprises. This partnership was unveiled during a live event on February 3, 2025.

"It seems clear to us that the true target/victim of the DeepSeek concerns is OpenAI, which claims the throne of all AI software and algorithms, which DeepSeeks claims to have outdone," wrote Robert ...

Corporate travel platform TravelPerk raised $200 million from investors including Atomico and EQT in a funding round valuing the startup at $2.7 billion.

Last year, TravelPerk raised $104 million in venture funding from SoftBank and others to ramp up its investments in the development of AI technology and products. Later in the year the company ...