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SoftBank is a major investor in OpenAI's AI infrastructure expansion, committing $30 billion in the company's recent $110 billion funding round and partnering with OpenAI and Oracle on the Stargate project, a $500 billion AI datacenter initiative with 10 gigawatts of power capacity. The company's energy subsidiary is developing facilities to support OpenAI's computing needs, and SoftBank is among the early design partners testing OpenAI's Presence product for enterprise AI agents in customer service applications.

Updated 5 August 2026

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OpenAI

Latest developments

Fortune Tech: Meta’s teen health fine, AI-generated viruses, Alphabet’s big bond sale Fortune · 44
Nvidia could reportedly backstop $250B loan for new OpenAI data center campus SiliconANGLE · 1 week ago · 44 Nvidia in Talks With OpenAI to Guarantee $250 Billion Financing for Data Center The Wall Street Journal · 1 week ago · 51
OpenAI built support agents for its own customer service line, now it hopes big enterprises will trust them too The New Stack · 2 weeks ago · 11
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year The Register · 3 months ago · 12
Scaling AI for everyone OpenAI · 5 months ago · 2
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI datacenter sites OpenAI · 10 months ago · 6

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August 2026

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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