SoftBank Group, led by Masayoshi Son, is in discussions to invest up to $40 billion in OpenAI, valuing it at $300 billion. This follows a shift in AI dynamics with DeepSeek overtaking ChatGPT in US App Store rankings,

Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant — available across its services, including Facebook and Instagram — to serve more than 1 billion people in 2025.

Zuckerberg added that Meta will be “growing our AI teams significantly” in 2025. Zuckerberg’s announcement comes days after OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. announced a $100 ...

SoftBank has offered a term sheet that would value OpenAI at a pre-money valuation, meaning the valuation without the funding of the current round, at $260 billion.

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

Helion, a startup working to generate electricity from nuclear fusion, on Tuesday said it has raised $425 million in venture funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group's Vision Fund 2.

SoftBank Group is in talks to lead a $500 million funding ... who were also former AI researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. The deal underscores SoftBank’s enthusiasm for AI. The Japanese ...

OpenAI is in talks to raise another giant round, of about $40 billion, led by SoftBank, which would value the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion including the investment—nearly double its valuation late last year in a Thrive Capital-led

The major investment deal aims to build infrastructure for AI, led by Japanese giant SoftBank ... version of Meta's large language model, Llama, was developed in Paris by a small group of "12 ...

"This will be a defining year for AI," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. "Over the coming years, it will drive our core products and business."

Stocks are ticking higher on Wall Street following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in early Thursday trading.