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SoftBank has been active as an investor and partner across recent AI financing and infrastructure efforts. Coverage highlights SoftBank investments in AI startups and enterprise-focused AI platforms, including a $200M investment in Gravis Robotics and participation in Thrive Holdings’ $2B funding round backed by OpenAI. SoftBank is also involved in major AI data-center expansion initiatives tied to OpenAI, including Stargate site additions with Oracle and OpenAI, and SoftBank’s SB Energy unit being linked to plans for large-scale computing capacity.

Updated 18 September 2026

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3 investments

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Sep 2025 → Aug 2026

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Management

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Portfolio

OpenAI Gravis Robotics Thrive Holdings

Latest developments

Gravis Robotics bags $200M, a safer marketplace for teen odd jobs, and Monzo chairman Gary Hoffman to stand down Tech.eu · 1 month ago · 51
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise TechCrunch · 1 month ago · 43 Fortune Tech: Meta’s teen health fine, AI-generated viruses, Alphabet’s big bond sale Fortune · 47
Nvidia could reportedly backstop $250B loan for new OpenAI data center campus SiliconANGLE · 1 month ago · 46 Nvidia in Talks With OpenAI to Guarantee $250 Billion Financing for Data Center The Wall Street Journal · 1 month ago · 53
OpenAI built support agents for its own customer service line, now it hopes big enterprises will trust them too The New Stack · 1 month ago · 16
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year The Register · 4 months ago · 13
Scaling AI for everyone OpenAI · 6 months ago · 7

Timeline

Month Quarter Year

August 2026

SoftBank invested $200 million in Gravis Robotics Funding

July 2026

Nvidia in negotiations to provide $250 billion financing guarantee for OpenAI's $500 billion data center project in Ohio Partnership

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise platform for deploying managed voice and chat AI agents Product launch

May 2026

February 2026

September 2025

OpenAI, NVIDIA, Oracle, and SoftBank announce Stargate AI datacenter expansion with 10 gigawatts capacity and $500 billion investment Partnership

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