{"id":903982,"date":"2025-02-08T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T03:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=903982"},"modified":"2025-02-08T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T04:08:53","slug":"softbank-plans-40-billion-investment-in-openai-valuing-it-at-260-billion-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/08\/softbank-plans-40-billion-investment-in-openai-valuing-it-at-260-billion-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank plans $40 billion investment in OpenAI, valuing it at $260 billion, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank is nearing a $40 billion primary investment in OpenAI, valuing the AI company at $260 billion pre-money and $300 billion post-money, according to CNBC\u2019s David Faber. Payments are expected over the next 12-24 months, starting as soon as this spring. SoftBank also has the option to syndicate up to $10 billion of the total amount. <\/p>\n<p>If completed, this investment would make SoftBank the leading backer of OpenAI, surpassing Microsoft. OpenAI was last valued at $157 billion by private investors in October 2024. The deal, which initially anticipated a $340 billion valuation, is now expected to settle closer to $300 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank is nearing a $40 billion primary investment in OpenAI, valuing the AI company at $260 billion pre-money and $300 billion post-money, according to CNBC\u2019s David Faber. Payments are expected over the next 12-24 months, starting as soon as this spring. SoftBank also has the option to syndicate up to $10 billion of the total amount. If completed, this investment would make SoftBank the leading backer of OpenAI, surpassing Microsoft. OpenAI was last valued at $157 billion by private investors in October 2024. The deal, which initially anticipated a $340 billion valuation, is now expected to settle closer to $300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903982","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}