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OpenAI Starts to Look Like Masa’s Savior

By Cory Weinberg · Aug 12, 2025 3:19pm PDT · 3 comments
SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has performed so terribly it seems like fiction. Yet SoftBank Group’s stock hit an all-time high on Tuesday. To followers of SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, none of this is surprising. Once again, he’s pulling a rabbit out of a hat, finding a blockbuster investment that overpowers his string of losers. The... SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has performed so terribly it seems like fiction. Yet SoftBank Group’s...
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SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in OpenAI

By Kate Clark and Cory Weinberg · Sep 30, 2024 6:30am PDT
SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI’s latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT at $150 billion before the investment, a person familiar with the deal said. The deal would represent SoftBank’s first investment in the Sam Altman-led company. SoftBank would join lead investor... SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI’s latest funding...
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SoftBank’s Secret $750 Million Investment in GoPuff

By Cory Weinberg and Amir Efrati · Jan 17, 2020 1:07pm PST
SoftBank’s Vision Fund made one of its largest U.S. venture investments last year in a Philadelphia-based startup that has developed a big following on college campuses for its deliveries of junk food, alcohol and other convenience store items.The Vision Fund led a $750 million investment in goPuff last August, two people familiar with the... SoftBank’s Vision Fund made one of its largest U.S. venture investments last year in a...