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OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy

OpenAI Blog 9 January 2026, 11:00

OpenAI and SoftBank Group announced a partnership with SB Energy to build large-scale data center campuses for AI training and inference workloads. The first facility in Texas will have 1.2 gigawatts of capacity and support OpenAI's Stargate initiative. The partnership aims to secure reliable power infrastructure for expanding AI compute availability.

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OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy to develop multi-gigawatt AI data center campuses, including a 1.2 GW Texas facility supporting the Stargate initiative.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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