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AI & Cloud SoftBank April 1, 2025

SoftBank to lead $40B financing for OpenAI

SoftBank Group reached a deal to lead the financing of up to $40 billion in a for-profit OpenAI subsidiary, with the Japanese company to invest $30 billion.

By Joseph Waring

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Ericsson Network Tech SoftBank March 26, 2025

SoftBank, Ericsson partner to advance 6G, AI

SoftBank Corp entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Swedish vendor Ericsson to establish a strategic partnership around the development of AI, cloud RAN, XR and 6G, which will run through to 2030.

By Kavit Majithia

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AI & Cloud SoftBank March 20, 2025

SoftBank makes $6.5B move for chip designer Ampere

SoftBank Group sealed a deal to acquire US-based chip designer Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion, a company it stated produces high-performance, energy efficient AI compute based on the Arm platform.

By Joseph Waring

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AI & Cloud Asia Pacific SoftBank March 19, 2025

SoftBank develops telecom AI LLM

SoftBank Corp added momentum to a recent focus on AI initiatives, detailing the development of a telecoms-focused large language model less than a week after reports the operator intends to deepen its work with Open AI.

By Michael Carroll

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AI & Cloud Operators SoftBank March 19, 2025

SoftBank trials self-driving edge system

SoftBank Corp demonstrated a remote support system running on its Aitras edge AI server could enable a move towards Level 4 autonomous driving following trials conducted with the OMAE Laboratory at Keio University.

By Joseph Waring

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AI & Cloud Asia Pacific MWC Barcelona 2025 Operators SoftBank March 5, 2025

SoftBank embraces AI RAN to kick-start innovation

SoftBank Corp shifted attention from open RAN to adding AI to a network running base stations which are software-ready to boost performance and spectrum efficiency.

By Joseph Waring

AI & Cloud MWC Barcelona 2025 Operators SoftBank March 3, 2025

SoftBank Corp highlights AI RAN gains with partners

Verification tests by SoftBank Corp and partners demonstrated network capacity can be increased without deploying new base stations, a feat the operator indicated meant AI for RAN has the potential to reduce the need for fresh infrastructure investment.

By Joseph Waring

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