PALO ALTO, U.S./TOKYO -- OpenAI's latest $40 billion funding round positions Japan's SoftBank Group as a leading partner for the U.S.-based ChatGPT developer looking to build artificial intelligence infrastructure to compete with such new players as DeepSeek.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son. (Nikkei montage//Source photos by AP and Nikkei)
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