{"id":1042645,"date":"2026-10-12T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042645"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:20:22","slug":"after-investing-65-billion-in-sam-altmans-openal-japans-richest-man-masayoshi-son-is-seeking-100-billion-to-fund-other-ai-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/after-investing-65-billion-in-sam-altmans-openal-japans-richest-man-masayoshi-son-is-seeking-100-billion-to-fund-other-ai-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"After investing $65 billion in Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAl, Japan&#8217;s richest man Masayoshi Son is seeking $100 billion to fund other AI projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank founder and Japan\u2019s richest person, Masayoshi Son, is seeking up to $100 billion from Gulf investors to set up a new fund designed to buy out traditional businesses and overhaul their operations using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, a report has said. SoftBank is facing mounting market scrutiny over its $65 billion commitment to Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI, especially amid delays surrounding the artificial intelligence startup\u2019s anticipated initial public offering (IPO), the Financial Times reported.Rather than backing early-stage tech ventures, the signature playbook of SoftBank&#8217;s earlier investment arms, this proposed vehicle relies on a buyout-focused framework: acquiring established, non-tech firms that have lagged behind in automation and using AI and physical robotics to boost their efficiency and corporate value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank founder and Japan\u2019s richest person, Masayoshi Son, is seeking up to $100 billion from Gulf investors to set up a new fund designed to buy out traditional businesses and overhaul their operations using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, a report has said. SoftBank is facing mounting market scrutiny over its $65 billion commitment to Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI, especially amid delays surrounding the artificial intelligence startup\u2019s anticipated initial public offering (IPO), the Financial Times reported.Rather than backing early-stage tech ventures, the signature playbook of SoftBank&#8217;s earlier investment arms, this proposed vehicle relies on a buyout-focused framework: acquiring established, non-tech firms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042647,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042645\/revisions\/1042647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}