President-elect Donald Trump and SoftBank Group Corp. founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son converse to the media within the foyer of Trump Tower on December 6, 2016 in New York.
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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son will announce a $100 billion funding within the U.S. over the following 4 years throughout a Monday go to to President-elect Donald Trump’s residence Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, sources informed CNBC’s Sara Eisen.
The billionaire investor and founding father of the Japanese tech-investing agency will even promise within the joint announcement with Trump to create 100,000 jobs centered on synthetic intelligence and associated infrastructure, the sources stated. The cash might be deployed earlier than the top of Trump’s time period.
The funding might come from numerous sources managed by Softbank, together with the Vision Fund, capital tasks or chipmaker Arm Holdings, the place the agency is majority proprietor. Some of the cash is not going to essentially be new cash raised, however might embrace some funding already introduced reminiscent of Softbank’s latest $1.5 billion funding in OpenAI, which is behind ChatGPT.
