SoftBank Group, every mention
22 scenes · ← back to SoftBank Group
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Alex Kantrowitz 24Ed Zitron 8Ranjan Roy 7M.G. Siegler 6Ryan Petersen 3Aaron Levie 2Stephen Morris 1Cory Weinberg 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where SoftBank Group comes up
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 22:26 Ranjan Roy But the Oracle SoftBank, what was announced?
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 50:04 M.G. Siegler and maybe SoftBank was having a hard time raising the debt needed to get this facility off the ground. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 50:43 Alex Kantrowitz Buyout funds and rival SoftBank's one hundred billion tech-focused vision fund.
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 26:20 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, OpenAI announces a hundred ten billion dollar funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank.
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz One hundred billion dollar or thereabouts funding raise for OpenAI, where SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and maybe Microsoft are expected to participate.
- ▶ 1:19 Alex Kantrowitz SoftBank with thirty billion of that.
- ▶ 20:48 Aaron Levie And I don't know that there's a number that like, if it turns out SoftBank wants to take more of the allocation, I'm making all of this up, but if it turns out SoftBank wants to take more of the allocation, I don't know that they're like, 2 times in the scene
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- ▶ 1:03:54 Alex Kantrowitz This is from a SoftBank CFO.
The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
- ▶ 31:24 M.G. Siegler And yeah, so that's still obviously a big deal, but there's talk that Amazon's going to do fifty billion dollars in the round and SoftBank's going to do more.
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 15:42 Stephen Morris Uh, Nvidia are putting more money in, but also SoftBank, the big Japanese conglomerate.
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 3:03 M.G. Siegler Like there was the, the notion that they maybe had to for some of the soft bank round, you know, that seems like it, 3 times in the scene
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 20:18 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI has also launched an initiative with SoftBank, Oracle, and others known as Stargate and pledged up to five hundred billion in, uh, US infrastructure for OpenAI.
- ▶ 27:34 Ranjan Roy But my favorite was actually just a couple of hours ahead of this recording, my favorite SoftBank. 4 times in the scene
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 21:54 Alex Kantrowitz Alright, so, in order to keep improving the models, these companies are gonna have to build larger and larger data centers, and at the heart of it is this five hundred billion dollar push to, uh, create a massive data center project with… 7 times in the scene
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 48:27 Ryan Petersen Back by, SoftBank is making a lot of investments in, ah, robotic systems from warehouses, so I'm, with a big investor of ours, I'm kind of close to some of the stuff and seeing it. 3 times in the scene
Tom Lee: Decoding the AI Trade, Bitcoin Predictions & What an AI Black Swan Event Might Look Like
- ▶ 13:31 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, SoftBank is in the middle of, uh, you know, we think this 40, forty billion, they're going to deploy a trillion into AI, forty billion into open AI.
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 2:22 Ranjan Roy They're, they're getting hit from many different sides, and the fact that Microsoft is actually kind of acting as a hurdle is definitely a big issue, and that can prevent them from twenty billion dollars of that sweet Massa Sun SoftBank… 2 times in the scene
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
- ▶ 43:26 Alex Kantrowitz SoftBank's gonna put thirty billion in.
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 2:31 Alex Kantrowitz I know that you're already seizing onto the fact that SoftBank is in the lead. 8 times in the scene
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 47:51 Alex Kantrowitz SoftBank and OpenAI investor has committed three billion dollars, uh, to use OpenAI's agent products this year alone.
OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
- ▶ 13:27 Cory Weinberg You know, you, you had Thrive Capital, uh, and SoftBank, um, writing really big checks.