Leading OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round shows the tech investor's knack for seizing big opportunities.

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Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off competition like Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek.

The AI developer’s financing round is the largest of all time, according to data compiled by research firm PitchBook.

The U.S. and China have dominated the AI race to date, but Japan now aims to catch up with the help of major deals and high-profile partnerships. Its strong industrial policies and powerful tech ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the awe-inspiring usage of ChatGPT’s new image generation tool a few days ago as “biblical.” ...

SoftBank Group Corp. announced late Wednesday it is acquiring semiconductor designer Ampere Computing in a $6.5 billion deal that will expand its investments in AI infrastructure.

SoftBank is considering investing over $1 trillion to create industrial parks for artificial intelligence (AI) across the United States ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a public hiring call on social media, inviting engineers and computing specialists to join the company as it ramps up development efforts following a major funding ...

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