Japanese technology giant Softbank evaluates a major investment in OpenAI, supported by Microsoft to increase its impact on artificial intelligence. According to The Financial Times, OpenAI can invest up to $ 25 billion from Softbank. If this investment occurs, Softbank may be the largest singular investor in OpenAI.
Softbank has increased its interest in artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies in recent years. Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of the company, sees artificial intelligence as one of the most important technological fields of the future. In this context, Softbank not only invests in OpenAI, but also allocates great budgets for projects for artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Softbank’s investment in OpenAI can help strengthen the company’s current infrastructure and bring artificial intelligence models to more advanced level. Artificial intelligence -based applications and large language models developed by OpenAI need more information processing power.
These investment plans came up after Softbank announced that it plans to build a $ 100 billion data centers in the US for OpenAI in partnership with Microsoft. This data center project, called Stargate, can be expanded to $ 500 billion in four years. Softbank is expected to invest between $ 15 billion as well as $ 15 billion in this project, as well as to invest between $ 15 and 25 billion.
OpenAI may have to resume its strategies due to Deepseek
Global competition in the field of artificial intelligence is getting hot every day. Deepseek, a Chinese -based technology company, recently launched the artificial intelligence model R1, which he recently developed. Developed at a relatively lower cost, this model can cause large companies such as OpenAI to reconsider their strategies.
Deepseek’s model also worried about investors in the artificial intelligence sector. Especially chip producer Nvidia suffered a major depreciation in the stock exchange after these developments. While Nvidia’s stock value decreased to $ 589 billion a day, the company’s investors expressed their concerns about the sustainability of expensive artificial intelligence infrastructures.
On the other hand, while developing Deepseek’s R1 model, OpenAI claimed that he found evidence that he had benefited from his registered artificial intelligence models with a technique called “distillation .. According to OpenAI, this may mean a violation of service conditions and re -exacerbate discussions on the use of artificial intelligence models for competitive purposes.
This investment, which Softbank plans to make to OpenAI, will be one of the largest artificial intelligence moves of the company to date. Masayoshi Son attracted attention with its large -scale investments in the past. However, significant financial losses in some investments such as Wework have caused Softbank’s more careful shaping the investment strategy.
Nevertheless, expectations of the future of artificial intelligence technology cause the company to take bold steps to invest in this field. The possible investment in OpenAI can enable Softbank to strengthen its place in the world of technology and make the company one of the important actors of the artificial intelligence ecosystem.
Although investment negotiations have not yet been finalized, it is clear that Softbank follows an aggressive growth strategy in the field of artificial intelligence. If this investment occurs, it can be expected that OpenAI will sign larger projects in the coming years and to become a stronger position in the field of artificial intelligence.