{"id":901641,"date":"2025-01-31T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=901641"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:44:34","slug":"softbank-eyes-40-billion-openai-investment-as-us-china-ai-race-heats-up-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/31\/softbank-eyes-40-billion-openai-investment-as-us-china-ai-race-heats-up-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank eyes $40 billion OpenAI investment as US-China AI race heats up: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Group is in talks to lead a funding round of up to $40 billion in ChatGPT maker OpenAI at a valuation of $300 billion, according to a Reuters report. News of the funding comes as a new Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, has overtaken ChatGPT as the top free app on US app stores, shattering notions of American supremacy in the global AI race.<\/p>\n<p>Despite DeepSeek&#8217;s low-cost AI models hogging the limelight, SoftBank has valued OpenAI at $260 billion going into the funding round, up from its $150 billion valuation just a few months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Group is in talks to lead a funding round of up to $40 billion in ChatGPT maker OpenAI at a valuation of $300 billion, according to a Reuters report. News of the funding comes as a new Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, has overtaken ChatGPT as the top free app on US app stores, shattering notions of American supremacy in the global AI race. Despite DeepSeek&#8217;s low-cost AI models hogging the limelight, SoftBank has valued OpenAI at $260 billion going into the funding round, up from its $150 billion valuation just a few months ago.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901641","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=901641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}