If Son spends $40 billion or more on his investment into OpenAI, it would be one of his largest ever – beating SoftBank’s $16 billion deal with WeWork, the failed office space company.

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese multinational investment company SoftBank Group, is one of the richest ...

OpenAI can approve or veto the new investors ... including $14.2bn on Adam Neumann, the founder of WeWork, which eventually tumbled into bankruptcy. At one point, some of Son’s own backers ...

Davos | San Francisco | SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $US25 billion ($40 billion) into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest ...

‘Gambling Man’ author Lionel Barber explains how Masayoshi Son went from losing money on WeWork to betting big ... along with OpenAI and Oracle, to invest billions of dollars in AI ...

OpenAI has already launched a preview of its ... particularly when it comes to transforming the nature of work. It lost billions on WeWork, for example, and threw $375 million at now-defunct ...

Public market investors must also evolve their analytical frameworks. Traditional metrics like price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios ...

which resulted in the company’s disastrous backing of WeWork. “All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” OpenAI and SoftBank will each commit $19 billion to Stargate, according to The ...

Previous double dips like WeWork and Uber have yielded distinctly ... Perhaps Son is banking on exploiting OpenAI’s new vulnerability to buy in at a bargain level. As recently as last week ...

Three weeks ago, the low-cost Chinese AI tool DeepSeek sent investors into a panic. On a shoestring budget, by AI standards, ...

From visionary bets in Yahoo, Alibaba, and Arm, to disastrous gambles on WeWork and Vision Funds, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has defied both logic and expectations. Self-styled as a modern Genghis Khan, ...

Son recently announced SB OpenAI Japan, a joint venture with Open ... DoorDash, Alibaba, the ill-fated WeWork, and more. Son has an estimated net worth of $17 billion, according to Bloomberg.