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SoftBank

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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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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

2026-03-25
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 …

2026-03-23
Bloomberg

AI chip company Kandou AI raised $225M from SoftBank, Synopsys, and others at a $400M valuation after pivoting from consumer hardware to AI infrastructure

2026-02-27
OpenAI 34 related

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M

openai.com/index/scalin... …George Pearkes /@peark.es:OpenAI round from strategic partners.  —  $110bn raised, $730bn valuation.  $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.  —  More i...

2026-02-23
The Information 10 related

How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority

When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged …

2025-11-05
CNBC 28 related

Samsung, TSMC, SoftBank, SK Hynix, and others closed as much as 10% down, matching their US peers, as investors worry over stretched AI and tech valuations

Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group closed 10% lower on Wednesday, amid a broader drop in AI-linked companies as investors turned wary …

2025-09-24
Wired 46 related

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW

The new sites will boost Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.

2025-08-20
CNBC 3 related

SoftBank's shares plunged up to 9.2% on August 20, as tech stocks in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong fell after US tech stocks dropped overnight

Link: fortune.com/2025/08/18/m... Nash / @radiodeadair.com : This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about “AI” for the past few years actually wasn't, ...

2025-05-20
Bloomberg 2 related

Inside the first Stargate AI data center, in Abilene, Texas: thousands working to build eight near-identical structures, startup Crusoe spending ~$12B, and more

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank hope that the site in Texas is the first of many across the US.  —  Trucks carrying concrete …

2024-12-23
Bloomberg 1 related

Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has recently become singularly obsessed with how to build the next Nvidia and wants competitive AI chips ready to ship by 2026

Bloomberg :

2024-02-14
Bloomberg

Co-CEO of SoftBank Vision Funds Alex Clavel says the VC is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach

right at the start of a generative AI boom. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Amy Thomson / @athomson6 : SoftBank's Vision Fund, once known for splashy ten-figure valuations, now plans to start investing ...

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Quarterly Coverage

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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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