Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off competition like Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek.

The AI developer’s financing round is the largest of all time, according to data compiled by research firm PitchBook.

The Tokyo-based company, led by billionaire Masayoshi Son, said it expected its first ... billion Stargate cloud-computing initiative with OpenAI, the investment marks a massive bet on the ...

The Japanese investment firm plans to lead a funding in a for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $300 ...

Stargate, the $500 billion data-centre project led by OpenAI and SoftBank Group , is named after science fiction. That’s apt given its outlandish financing plans. Without a clear guarantee from a ...

Altman is particularly interested in people who know how to squeeze every bit of performance out of a system. If you have experience in compiler design or programming language design, he says, OpenAI ...

deepening the connection between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. Heavyweights Back OpenAI’s AI Push SoftBank isn’t the only one betting big on OpenAI. The funding round ...

Beyond defense, Altman said the government needs to start putting more effort into learning how to use and integrate AI tools ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a public hiring call on social media, inviting engineers and computing specialists to join the company as it ramps up development efforts following a major funding ...

While some of the featured leaders were ones you’d expect—cabinet nominees, congressional leaders, megadonor Elon Musk—at least one was a surprise: Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire ...

Global tech investor SoftBank Group 99842.28%increase; green up pointing triangle is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday ...

SoftBank and its CEO Masayoshi Son contributed $7.5 billion. AFP via Getty Images OpenAI said the financing was another step toward achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) – defined as ...