{"id":981328,"date":"2025-12-22T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981328"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:02:00","slug":"softbank-races-to-fulfill-22-5-billion-funding-commitment-to-openai-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/softbank-races-to-fulfill-22-5-billion-funding-commitment-to-openai-by-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank races to fulfill $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/TOKYO\/SAN FRANCISCO: SoftBank Group is racing to close a $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a \u200dsale of some investments, and could tap its undrawn margin loans borrowed against its valuable ownership in chip firm Arm Holdings, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;all-in&#8221; bet on OpenAI is among the biggest yet by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, \u2060as the Japanese billionaire seeks to improve his firm&#8217;s position in the race for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/TOKYO\/SAN FRANCISCO: SoftBank Group is racing to close a $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a \u200dsale of some investments, and could tap its undrawn margin loans borrowed against its valuable ownership in chip firm Arm Holdings, sources said. The &#8220;all-in&#8221; bet on OpenAI is among the biggest yet by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, \u2060as the Japanese billionaire seeks to improve his firm&#8217;s position in the race for artificial intelligence.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981328","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=981328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}