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SoftBank

859 articles decelerating

SoftBank has appeared in 859 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 29 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Vision Fund, Masayoshi Son, Japanese, Vision Fund 2.

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859
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publications
The Architect's Chip
For 35 years, Arm designed chips for everyone and competed with no one. Today it unveiled its own AI chip — with Nvidia's biggest customers as first buyers. Reg...
"We've Achieved AGI"
Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that AGI has been achieved. The same day, OpenAI guaranteed private equity firms a 17.5% minimum return and signed a 5-gigawatt el...
The Leverage
Oracle abandoned the Stargate Texas datacenter on the same day it announced thousands of layoffs from a "cash crunch." SoftBank needs its largest bridge loan ev...
The Red Lines
On the day OpenAI closed $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, Sam Altman told staff the company shares Anthropic's "red lines" on military AI — while pursu...
Before the Music Stops
Benedict Evans said Sam Altman is "desperately swapping paper for assets before the music stops." January 2 showed what that looks like—and how fast the convers...

Coverage Timeline

2026-04-15
Bloomberg 1 related

Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B

More banks are being invited to join SoftBank Group Corp.'s $40 billion loan backing its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …

2026-04-13
Nikkei Asia 11 related

Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a ~1T-parameter foundation model for “physical AI” by 2030

TOKYO — SoftBank has established a company to develop artificial intelligence in Japan, with NEC and Honda Motor among eight peers …

2026-04-04
Bloomberg 11 related

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build data centers in Japan, investing $10B in cybersecurity and training 1M AI engineers through 2029

2026-04-03
Bloomberg 15 related

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build data centers in Japan, investing $10B in cybersecurity and training 1M AI engineers through 2029

2026-04-01
CNBC 66 related

OpenAI closed $122B in committed capital led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously saying the round would total $110B

OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.

2026-03-31
CNBC 21 related

OpenAI closed a $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously announcing the round would total $110B

OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.

2026-03-27
Reuters 9 related

SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund further investment in OpenAI

SoftBank Group (9984.T) said on Friday it has secured a $40 billion loan through a bridge facility to fund further investments …

2026-03-25
Wired 33 related

Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on changing Arm's culture, working with Arm owner SoftBank, developing Arm's AGI CPU data center chip fabricated by TSMC, and more

Lauren Goode /Wired:

Financial Times 63 related

Arm unveils AGI CPU, its own AI chip, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI are early clients; ARM jumps 10%+

SoftBank-owned tech group projects fivefold revenue increase in five years  —  Meta and OpenAI will be among the first customers …

2026-03-24
Financial Times 39 related

Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers

SoftBank-owned tech group secures Meta and OpenAI as first customers of its long-awaited new AI processor

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SoftBank has appeared in 853 Techmeme articles since February 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary... and OpenAI raised $6.6B led by Thrive Capital, the largest VC deal of all time, valuing it at.... Frequently covered alongside Vision Fund, Masayoshi Son, Vision Fund 2, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and TechCrunch. Coverage has shifted toward funding themes and away from enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -12pts; consumer -23pts; research +10pts
2024Q3enterprise +10pts; consumer +30pts; research +10pts
2024Q4developer +18pts; consumer -40pts; research -20pts

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