SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/softbank_funding_openai/

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  1. CelebrationFit8548 on

    Why would anyone dump funds into ‘the most overhyped and under-performing ***poor quality low value product***’ ever created in human history defies belief.

    These people *deserve to lose these funds* if they are buying into the BS that is AI after the clear evidence of the ***’significantly poor quality products’*** that the AI Slop Shops keep pumping out with very low to no value.

  2. 0x476c6f776965 on

    I don’t get it. Why invest in OpenAI when Google delivers the same or arguably a superior product (Gemini), with a healthier balance sheet. Sam Altman’s shit must be so legendary that these big shot investments CEOs don’t realize it stinks.

  3. if liquidity is an issue, we might be near the end but at this point no matter happens its going to be painful

    if the bubble pops, we repeat what happened to Japan in the 80s and those lenders become desperate to recoup their losses in heavy handed ways

    if it doesnt, hardware becomes a service and the economy is strangled to death by declining computer literacy of workers who only owned a phone with no reason to pay 20 bucks an hour to use a computer and cloud fees that rise faster than the wages as skilled labor ages out of the population and the software companies that make computers useful go bankrupt too.

    Im sure people will spend $20 an hour to use a computer with nothing to do on it and games stop being made because the Adobe software used to make those games disappear too. And im sure the open source software big tech needs will continue just fine when it costs the contributors money for every hour they contribute to the project in their spare time.

    Its like these tech bros dont think ahead while giving long rants about the future

  4. Macho-Fantastico on

    Whenever I read about investments made into dodgy businesses, SoftBank always comes up. It’s genuinely fascinating to see how many failed businesses SoftBank have thrown money at.

    WeWork is one of the most famous, but there’s so many others. FTX, Zume and View to name just a few.

  5. Reminds me of Bear Stearns calling up Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase asking for $30 billion before Asia opens during the subprime mortgage crisis.

  6. >SoftBank, meanwhile, has liquidated its stake in Nvidia to fund the venture

    Didn’t the US government buy a piece of NVIDIA a few months ago? Did we buy SoftBank’s stake to prop up OpenAI?

  7. spending the rest of your money on last one stupid thing. before the end of the year.. we have all been there i guess..

    rip to the bank

  8. ChatGPT is so bad that you cannot upload more than a handful of screenshots and it runs out of memory. You cannot even upload in a new chat window. All the massive data centers opening across the globe is causing lot more trouble for the local communities and these idiots are pumping tons of money into them, without any ROI.

  9. This really shows how aggressive the AI arms race has become. $22.5B on a deadline is wild, even for SoftBank. Stargate sounds visionary, but the scale, debt, and pressure raise real questions about sustainability versus hype in today’s AI investment boom.

  10. AI is the new gold rush, so people are making the same mistake, thinking money is in gold, it’s in supply mining équipement