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SoftBank in Talks to Lead $500 Million AI Robotics Funding

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to lead a $500 million funding round for Skild AI, a startup building robotics software, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup would be valued at $4 billion,

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SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI

SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported. The two-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.

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SoftBank set to invest in robotics start-up Skild AI at $4bn valuation

SoftBank is in talks to lead a funding round for artificial intelligence robotics start-up Skild AI that would more than double its valuation to close to $4bn, as Masayoshi Son hunts for deals to match his vaunted ambitions for the sector.

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Helion raises $425 mln from SoftBank's venture arm, hits $5.4 bln valuation

Helion, a startup working to generate electricity from nuclear fusion, on Tuesday said it has raised $425 million in venture ...

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SoftBank veteran hunts for profits in payments infrastructure plumbing

Former SoftBank exec Akshay Naheta's startup, Distributed Technologies Research, is trying to bridge the gap between banking ...

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Trump's Stargate AI project backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank is taking shape: Here's what we know

Trump announced a $500 billion project called Stargate backed by SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI. The details of this project ...

SoftBank-Backed Fish Firm Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales

EFishery Pte, one of Indonesia’s most prominent startups, may have inflated its revenue and profit over several years, ...

SoftBank Shares Jump After Unveiling $500 Billion Venture With OpenAI

SoftBank Group shares jumped after the company and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced plans to invest up to half a trillion dollars in artificial-intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. Shares rose 8.8% ...

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OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.

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SoftBank founder shifts investment focus from China to US

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son is shifting his focus away from investments in China and toward the US, as seen with his ...

SoftBank, ASML stock hit by DeepSeek fears; electrification names crushed

In international markets, chipmaking and electrification companies saw pressure on the fears over the DeepSeek AI service. SoftBank -- the company that said it would fund up to $500 billion in AI ...