{"id":988178,"date":"2026-01-28T08:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988178"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:58:40","slug":"softbank-in-talks-to-invest-up-to-30-billion-more-in-openai-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/softbank-in-talks-to-invest-up-to-30-billion-more-in-openai-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank \u200dGroup Corp is in talks to invest as much as an \u2060additional $30 billion in OpenAI, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as the Japanese conglomerate doubles down on its bet \u200con the \u200cChatGPT owner. <\/p>\n<p>The fresh investment would form part of a funding round that could \u200craise up to $100 billion for OpenAI, valuing it at about $830 billion, the person said. <\/p>\n<p>The source declined to be identified as the information had not been publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank \u200dGroup Corp is in talks to invest as much as an \u2060additional $30 billion in OpenAI, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as the Japanese conglomerate doubles down on its bet \u200con the \u200cChatGPT owner. The fresh investment would form part of a funding round that could \u200craise up to $100 billion for OpenAI, valuing it at about $830 billion, the person said. The source declined to be identified as the information had not been publicly disclosed.<\/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-988178","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\/988178","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=988178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}