According to the Wall Street Journal, SoftBank Group has agreed to lead an investment of up to $40 billion in a for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI.
Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japan's SoftBank Group, said that "Stargate" (Stargate) will provide at least 10 times the number of chips every year.
OpenAI and SoftBank Group will seek to build Japan's artificial intelligence infrastructure, including data centers and power plants. The two companies will host a gathering of more than 500 Japanese companies in Tokyo on Monday to find industry applications in which they are involved in generating artificial intelligence. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son are expected to make an announcement Monday night after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
US President Trump announced at the White House on the 21st that Japan's SoftBank Group, the US Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center and the US Oracle Corporation will invest 500 billion US dollars to build infrastructure to support the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States. Speaking at the White House on the same day, Mr. Trump said the three companies had joined forces on a project called Stargate to build data centres in the US to support the development of ...
According to Nvidia, SoftBank Group has made great achievements in technology by working closely with Nvidia to develop a new type of telecom network that can run both AI and 5G workloads, known in the industry as the artificial intelligence radio access network (AI-RAN). Through outdoor trials in Kanagawa Prefecture, SoftBank Group demonstrated that its NVIDIA accelerated AI-RAN solution has achieved carrier-grade 5G performance and is able to use the excess capacity of the network to run AI in...
The "AI revolution" proposed by Masayoshi Son, chairperson and president of Japan's SoftBank Group (SBG), has begun. SoftBank Group plans to use AI semiconductors as a breakthrough to expand its business to data centers, robotics, power generation and other industries. It is expected that the maximum investment can reach 10 trillion yen (about 464.09 billion yuan). Microsoft and others in the United States are also making huge investments in the AI field, showing the pattern of global tech giant...