Google and SoftBank back QuEra Computing in a $230M round, fueling quantum sector growth and investor interest

Google and SoftBank Bet Big on Quantum Startup QuEra With $230M Investment

(Bloomberg) -- A few weeks ago, SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son stood alongside US President Donald Trump to unveil the Stargate Project, an artificial intelligence venture with OpenAI that could cost $500 billion or more. Now Son is figuring out how to pay for it.Most Read from ...

SoftBank Weighs Debt-Heavy Financing in $500 Billion AI Push

SoftBank Explores Debt-Heavy Financing for $500 Billion AI Push

Stargate, a joint venture between ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, plans to invest up to $500 billion to help the United States stay ahead of China and other competitors in the global AI race. In January, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the private sector investment initiative ...

OpenAI eyeing more data centers in Texas, other states for Stargate, Bloomberg News reports

In May 2024, Ampere collaborated with Qualcomm to introduce an AI-focused server that integrates Ampere’s CPUs with Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 Ultra chips.

SoftBank in advanced talks to acquire Ampere Computing

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI stepped up their AI partnership Monday, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan. Cristal will first roll out in Son’s own SoftBank Group companies, which include Arm, a semiconductor and software company, and PayPay, an electronic ...

SoftBank and OpenAI set up joint company to push artificial intelligence services

Three prominent figures in the initiative are SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son who will handle the financing, CEO Sam Altman of OpenAI who will be contributing his overall AI expertise, and Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison who will oversee the buildout.

Semtech Corporation (SMTC) Is Powering Nvidia’s AI Revolution

For OpenAI, securing this investment could provide the necessary capital to scale its operations and explore new AI applications. With increased financial backing, OpenAI could advance its research agenda and invest in the infrastructure required for more robust AI model deployment, potentially ...

SoftBank explores investing billions in OpenAI partnership

The two-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last July from investors including Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Coatue Management. The company’s AI model can be applied to various types of robots, Skild founders Deepak ...

SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI

The semiconductor executive and investor has wielded his influence over most of the major names in the chip business and served on the boards of Annapurna Labs — which now fuels Amazon's chip ambitions — SoftBank, and Intel, among others.

Semiconductor Legend Lip-Bu Tan on Investing in Nvidia Alternatives - Business Insider

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Softbank's ARM IPO, Toyota plants shutdown for a weird reason & a conversation about Indian venture capital.

Could It Be Worth Investing in Softbank’s ARM IPO and Other Tech News of the Week

SoftBank's results have improved dramatically, with a total net profit of about $29.9 billion between April and September 2020 (up 371 percent year-over-year)

The Future of SoftBank: The Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs

The story of Silicon Valley is one of regular cycles. A company is founded, scales rapidly, it’s employees start their own companies, and the cycle repeats.

SoftBank is Stifling Entrepreneurship

At the end of the year, two very important events took place in the crypto world. Many media mentioned them in passing, although the events are really significant.

Banks, institutional investors, and Cryptocurrencies in 2020

2019 was a rough year for the co-working space company WeWork. At the beginning of the year it was valued at a whopping 47 billion dollars, making it the fourth highest valued startup in the world and at the end it was valued at less than 8 billion dollars by its biggest investor.

4 Business Lessons From the Failure of Wework - The 47 Billion Dollar ‘Tech’ Company

BloXroute secures $70 million in funding in build blockchain distribution network. 

BloXroute Closes $70 million Series B Funding Round Headed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 

Masayoshi Son, the charismatic leader of Softbank the $100bn venture fund and his 300 year vision of the future has been making headlines but for me it misses a fundamental paradigm shift happening in the Internet today. A change that could render many of his investments vulnerable. In short, the most transformational technology of tomorrow, from data collection to AI, will be increasingly open source, tokenised and highly decentralised.

Softbank’s 300 year vision is already out of date, here’s why..

At this point I’m sure you’ve heard of the $100B Softbank Vision Fund that’s been making headlines around the world. With all this news traditional VCs now feel the need to keep up so they don’t get “left behind.” While this may seem like simply a PR/branding problem, it has fundamentally changed the industry with far-reaching implications. While some of the headlines below may seem ridiculous, it’s time to see what happens when the disruptors get disrupted. This change isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

SoftBank disrupts Venture Capital

SoftBank Corp. operates as an affiliate of paypay bank corporation with 14.87% indirect stakes.

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