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The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX, who will work in close collaboration with technology partners Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI, to advance cutting-edge AI capabilities, drive economic growth, and shape a future driven by innovation and opportunity.

In July last year, eFishery announced it has raised $200 million in its Series D funding round. The round was led by Abu Dhabi-based global fund manager 42XFund and backed by Malaysia’s largest public sector pension fund, Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) (KWAP), Switzerland-based asset manager responsAbility, early investor multi-stage venture…

Japanese venture capital fund Softbank Group Corp. has acquired United Kingdom chip start-up Graphcore for an undisclosed sum.

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel), Deutsche Telekom, e&, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp., the founding parties of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA), have signed a joint venture (JV) agreement focused on co-developing and launching a multilingual Telco Large Language Models (LLM).

Carro is raising capital during one of the hardest possible times for fledgling firms. The Southeast Asia technology industry has been plagued by job cuts, CEO resignations and falling startup valuations, making it difficult for companies to debut on public markets.

Humane Inc has on Thursday revealed plans for a telco partnership with SoftBank Corp.(SoftBank) for the Humane Ai Pin, the first stand-alone Ai device and proprietary Ai-driven OS, CosmOS. This partnership, as part of a strategic investment opportunity, will see SoftBank become the exclusive telecom provider for Ai Pin in Japan, leveraging SoftBank’s…

Japanese telecommunications and information technology (IT) firm SoftBank Corp. has inked deal to acquire 51 percent stake in Dublin-based car software firm Cubic Telekom Ltd. for approximately EUR 473 million ($512 million).

SoftBank Corp. (SoftBank) has on Wednesday announced that from October 2023, it will launch a full-fledged expansion of its global internet of things (IoT) business in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

Japanese multinational investment holding firm SoftBank Group Corp. and American robotics warehouse automation company Symbotic Inc., have on Monday announced the establishment of GreenBox Systems LLC (GreenBox), a new joint venture to address the more than $500 billion annual warehouse-as-a-service market opportunity.

SoftBank Corp., a Japan-based telecom and IT operator, has on Monday announced it launched its own artificial intelligence (AI) Chat service for internal use. As of May 29, 2023, the generative AI service is available to all SoftBank employees, a workforce of approximately 20,000 people.