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 OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $25 billion from SoftBank amid DeepSeek shock.

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