{"id":978135,"date":"2025-12-03T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978135"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:42:03","slug":"when-chatgpt-made-japans-second-richest-man-softbank-ceo-masayoshi-son-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/when-chatgpt-made-japans-second-richest-man-softbank-ceo-masayoshi-son-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"When ChatGPT made Japan&#8217;s second-richest man Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son &#8216;cry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group CEO, has revealed that the company\u2019s decision to sell its substantial stake in Nvidia was a painful, though necessary, step taken to fund its aggressive new investments in artificial intelligence (AI), including a major commitment to OpenAI. Addressing the November disclosure that SoftBank had completely unloaded its shares worth $5.83 billion in the world\u2019s most valuable chipmaker, Son expressed deep regret, figuratively admitting he \u2018cried\u2019 when he sold shares of the biggest tech company in terms of market cap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to sell a single share. I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI and other projects,\u201d Son told attendees at the FII Priority Asia forum in Tokyo on Monday (December 2). \u201cI was crying to sell Nvidia shares,\u201d Japan\u2019s second richest man added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group CEO, has revealed that the company\u2019s decision to sell its substantial stake in Nvidia was a painful, though necessary, step taken to fund its aggressive new investments in artificial intelligence (AI), including a major commitment to OpenAI. Addressing the November disclosure that SoftBank had completely unloaded its shares worth $5.83 billion in the world\u2019s most valuable chipmaker, Son expressed deep regret, figuratively admitting he \u2018cried\u2019 when he sold shares of the biggest tech company in terms of market cap. \u201cI don\u2019t want to sell a single share. I just had more need for money to invest [&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-978135","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\/978135","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=978135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}