Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The 462B missing piece. Softbank does not have enough cash to invest the 500B:

Stargate is a great name but the $500b is a ridiculous number and no one should take it seriously unless SoftBank is going to sell all of their BABA and ARM.

SoftBank has $38b in cash, $142b in debt and generates $3ish billion in FCF per BBG.  They own $143b in ARM and $18b in…

Gavin Baker

The 462B missing piece. Softbank does not have enough cash to invest the 500B: https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/1882081746877063677

I have to believe a lot of that $500B is actually in the form of in-kind services. Like how Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI was largely compute services for training. 

I saw this post about Jasmy possibly being the thing SoftBank brings to the table (no idea how legit or not this take is). Interesting if true.

Brian Roemmele

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I have to believe a lot of that $500B is actually in the form of in-kind services. Like how Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI was largely compute services for training. 

I saw this post about Jasmy possibly being the thing SoftBank brings to the table (no idea how legit or not this take is). Interesting if true. 

https://x.com/brianroemmele/status/1881893343464177922?s=46&t=kbUluqkrtSAIaGiJXuXVAw

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