CEO Softbank says he wanted to become Openai Early Investor

Soft banks On Friday, he said “All in” OnePai, Massoi CEO of the son, how the Japanese technological giant looks to realize his vision of “artificial supervision”.

This year’s Japanese multinational conglomerate increases its investment in Openai and In which is involved In joint ventures, such as the Stargate project for $ 500 billion.

According to the son, Softbank is now “all in” artificial intelligence company, with the total number of planned investments in the company reached about 4.8 trillion Japanese yen ($ 33.2 billion), despite the fact that it did not enter the list and uniformly.

“I think Openai will eventually be included in the list and, in my opinion, will become the most valuable company in the world,” the son said. However, he added that he “requires courage to invest” in such a company.

As it turns out, the son has long considered this conviction. During the shareholder meeting, he showed that by 2019, Openai CEO Sam Altman asked him if SoftBank would invest $ 10 billion.

“I said, I would … I was serious because I had financial resources thanks to Vision Fund performance. But obviously Sam talked to other potential investors, and eventually they chose Microsoft,” he said.

Microsoft ended up making a deal that made it an exclusive computing provider for research, Openai products and programs for developers. However Microsoft lost your status As an exclusive cloud -cloud supplier earlier this year.

And these relationships now seem to stand on the rocky bases. According to the latest reports, Microsoft did not approve the Openai restructuring plan This will turn it into a more normal profit.

Concerning the reports, the son suggested that Altman had to choose SoftBank rather than Microsoft as his original partner, although he noted that SoftBank at the time was smaller and that Microsoft had its global supply networks, technical talents and brand value.

Softbank earlier stated that it could reduce Its part of the investment in $ 30 billion Last round of financing Openai in March Up to $ 20 billion if it does not restructure the profit organization until December 31.

However, on Friday, his son said that his belief on Openai was just strengthened, and that SoftBank would continue to deepen his relationship with the company, no matter what happens to Microsoft.

Part of the faith described Like AI, which is 10,000 times smarter than people.

The son said on Friday that he wants SoftBank to become the largest platform supplier for this ASI over the next decade, acting as an “organizer of the industry in an artificial warden”.

He added that the Softbank Partnership of Openai, as well as the British semiconductor company ARM, which SoftBank acquired in 2016, would be important for these plans.

Softbank is becoming more aggressive in its investments related to AI that included Acquisition of American Designer chips ampere for $ 6.5 billion Early this year.

Bloomberg News reports Last week, referring to people acquaintances with this question that the son also considers the possibility of creating an industrial complex in $ 1 trillion in the US, which will develop II.