Japanese multinational conglomerate and major technology investor; backed SB Energy.
“After Couche-Tard abandoned its $47B pursuit of Seven & i last July, the dynamic appears to have fully reversed: Seven & i just received investments from SoftBank, PayPal, and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial (each investing ~¥100B).”
“Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion of financing for OpenAI to lease a 10-gigawatt Ohio data-center project being developed by SoftBank while separately discussing up to $350 billion to finance the chips inside.”
“SoftBank Group is considering an acquisition of Gravis Robotics, a Zurich-based startup that enhances the autonomy of earthmoving equipment.”
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