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SoftBank’s OpenAI Bet Has Grown to $64.6 Billion—Here’s How It Is Financing It

SoftBank’s OpenAI Bet Has Grown to $64.6 Billion—Here’s How It Is Financing It

SoftBank’s scramble in late 2025 to fund another $22.5 billion investment in OpenAI turned out to be only one stage of a much larger financial commitment. By February 2026, the Japanese investment group had agreed to put another $30 billion into OpenAI, potentially taking its cumulative investment in the artificial-intelligence company to $64.6 billion and … Read more