SoftBank negotiates to invest 40 billion dollars in Openai and the Stargate project

The South African was really important for the foundation of OpenAIand Altman came to declare in an interview with ‘The Guardian’ that “really trusted him.” However, 15 years later, both gurus are involved in a legal battle, instigated by Musk.

The founder of Tesla Alega that Altman and the Openai dome have breached the Founding Agreement of the company, chasing the economic benefit over the contribution to humanity, as was intended initially.

Far away those days, in which we did not know the word AI, where Altman and Musk They cooperated to devise the technology of the future. Both protagonists are no longer understood, and with the impulse of the Stargate project, the frictions have returned to the surface.

Skepticism … or envy?

Regarding Trump’s intentions to develop Stargate next to Altman, Muskwho maintains his reservations to the founder of OpenAI, declared that the operation would be difficult, because I doubted the availability of the necessary funds To carry it out. However, Softbank seems to have erected in the Savior of American technological ambitions.

Apart from direct investment in Openai, the conglomerate has assured that it will put more than 15 billion In Stargate, according to ‘Financial Times’. In this way, it seems that the project is closer to being feasible. However, American experts estimate that the bet of SoftBank Openai could reach up to 40 billion dollars.

In this way, the treatment becomes one of the strongest bets of SoftBank, known for its investments in NvidiaT-Mobile or Bytedonce, still owner of Tiktok. The fund directed by Masayoshi are It seems to have convinced the importance of investing in AI, the determining factor of the fifth industrial revolution, and has trusted OpenAi, a reference of the sector.

Technological earthquake

This bet, especially the moment it is done, does not respond to chance. North American technology companies have suffered a earthquake During this week, an earthquake called Depseek. China’s ‘chatbot’ has meant a revolution in the AI ​​sector, because its creators stated that its R1 model, similar to Chatgpt, cost alone six million dollars In its development.

On the contrary that chatgpt, the American AI on which they have invested thousands of millions of dollars to train and improve their engines. Another of the fundamental differences is that Depseek is a technology of open sourceThat is, any developer can get their engine for free and open and use it to develop its own application, for example.

Altman himself, creator of Chatgpt, shared in X his stupor About Deepseek’s irruption, which he said he was “fascinating.” Similarly, Silicon Valley guru said it was “stimulating” to have a new competitor, but at the same time he warned that Openai will continue to offer much better models.

How to divorce Microsoft

In the event that the operation came to fruition, Softbank would be auged as the Preeminent inverter of OpenAi. This position is currently occupied by Microsoft, whose first investment in the technological dates Seat in the front row to continue witnessing the artificial intelligence revolution.

They are spoken on many occasions about the «Superintelligence«, A concept that seems to have a leading role of the new digital revolution. Through its investments, SoftBank Try to fulfill your mission of developing this phenomenon. It is a technology that, in the words of the tycoon, «exceeds the Human cognitive skills«.

The 40 billion dollars are the riskiest bet that Masayoshi are devised so far. More than double its largest investment previously, the 16 billion of dollars that injected into Weworka startup of ‘coworking’ spaces that failed loudly.

On the part of Altman, it is well known in the Olympus of technology that the guru has been wanting a long time get disconnectedat least partially, from Microsoft. Strategies to carry out separation include the development of Your own chips or the use of alternative cloud storage services, such as Oracle. When the Stargate creation agreement was signed, according to the ‘Financial Times’, Microsoft agreed yield your position as the unique supplier of OpenAi cloud services.

Similarly, the company founded by Sam Altman currently crosses a process of conversion complete. Openai today has the status of non -profit organization, as signed in the founding agreement that Musk referenced.

However, Openai intends to transition to a “profit” model, which would allow them to collect tens of billions of dollars more by investors. In this way, it would continue to strengthen its position in the technological market, where it is already one of the main protagonists.