SoftBank’s growing bets on AI and semiconductor assets

SoftBank Group has raised $11.1 billion in the largest high-yield corporate bond sale globally on record to fund its investments in OpenAI and other artificial intelligence-related companies and infrastructure.

Founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world’s leading AI platform with investments across the semiconductor supply chain, data centres, large language model development and robotics.

Below are major AI investments that SoftBank has unveiled so far.