{"id":29903,"date":"2025-03-02T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=29903"},"modified":"2025-03-02T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:59:15","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6-ceo-%e5%ad%99%e6%ad%a3%e4%b9%89%e8%ae%a1%e5%88%92%e5%80%9f%e6%ac%be-240-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%e5%a4%a7%e4%b8%be%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/29903.html","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son plans to borrow $24 billion to invest heavily in AI, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 2, 2012 - According to The Information, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [softbank]]\" target=\"_blank\" >SoftBank<\/a>Chief Executive Officer, SoftBank Group<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%ad%99%e6%ad%a3%e4%b9%89\" title=\"Look at the article that contains the label &quot;Sun Justice&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" >Masayoshi Son<\/a>\uff08Masayoshi Son (Masayoshi Son) plans to borrow $16 billion (note: currently about Rs. 116,638 million) to invest in artificial intelligence. Sources revealed that the<strong>Company executives had communicated the plan to the banks last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29904\" title=\"8cfe7d6bj00ssi49f0053d000hs00bvp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8cfe7d6bj00ssi49f0053d000hs00bvp.jpg\" alt=\"8cfe7d6bj00ssi49f0053d000hs00bvp\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report noted that<strong>The Japanese tech investment giant could borrow a further $8 billion (currently around Rs 58,319 crore) by early 2026<\/strong>to continue to advance its strategic layout in the field of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Reuters reported that SoftBank was working with ChatGPT's parent company, OpenGPT.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a> Investment negotiations, plans to invest up to $25 billion. This indicates that Softbank is accelerating its expansion into the field of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, SoftBank has committed to investing $15 billion in Stargate, according to Reuters. Previously, The Information reported that<strong>SoftBank Plans to Invest $40 Billion Together in Stargate and OpenAI<\/strong>The company has also commenced negotiations with interested parties for an $18.5 billion financing program that will be secured by its publicly traded assets.<\/p>\n<p>Stargate is a joint venture between Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank that plans to invest up to $500 billion to help the U.S. stay ahead of competitors like China in the global race for artificial intelligence. The joint venture was announced at the White House in January by President Donald Trump, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, Masayoshi Son, chief executive officer of SoftBank Group, plans to borrow $16 billion (note: currently about 116.638 billion yuan) to invest in artificial intelligence, according to The Information. The company's executives conveyed the plan to the bank last week, sources said. The Japanese tech investment giant could borrow a further $8 billion (currently about 58.319 billion yuan) in early 2026 to continue to advance its strategic layout in the AI field, the report noted. In January, Reuters reported that SoftBank was in talks with ChatGPT's parent company, OpenGPT.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,1254,1253],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-29903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-1254","tag-1253"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29903"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=29903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}