A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.

Reports began circulating this week that SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25 billion into OpenAI, a move that would position the Japanese operator as the generative AI (gen AI) company’s biggest financial backer.

The Japanese corporation SoftBank Group has shown interest in investing as much as $25 billion in OpenAI, which would make it the organization’s biggest financial sponsor. According to a Bloomberg report,

SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.

Japan's SoftBank is in talks to invest $15-25 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would make it the ChatGPT-maker's biggest financial backer, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.