Catenaa, Monday, February 02, 2026-SoftBank Group is in discussions to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI, potentially part of a funding round that could raise $100 billion and value the AI company at roughly $830 billion, the WallStreet Journal report said.
The additional investment would follow SoftBank’s December commitment of $41 billion, giving the Japanese conglomerate an 11% stake in OpenAI.
CEO Masayoshi Son has pursued an aggressive strategy to strengthen SoftBank’s position in the artificial intelligence sector amid rising competition from rivals such as Alphabet.
OpenAI faces growing costs for training and running its AI models, driven by rapid adoption and the launch of increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
Both SoftBank and OpenAI are also investors in Stargate, a $500 billion project to build AI data centers designed to support large-scale training and inference, which executives say is key to U.S. competitiveness in AI against China.
SoftBank declined to comment on the talks.
The discussions signal the company’s continued “all-in” commitment to OpenAI, which has become a central pillar of its AI strategy, even as other Vision Fund deals have slowed to focus on funding this investment.
