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OpenAI Aims to Dominate the AI Grid With Five New Data Centers
The center of gravity in high performance computing continues to shift, with power emerging as the defining constraint for growth and scale. Training and deploying frontier AI models now ...Full Article
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank Expand Stargate with 5 New AI Data Center Sites
Sept. 24, 2025 -- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are announcing five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI’s overarching AI infrastructure platform. The combined capacity from these ...Full Article
SoftBank Expands NVIDIA-Powered AI Infrastructure Beyond 10,000 GPUs
July 24, 2025 -- SoftBank Corp. announced that on July 22, 2025, it deployed a DGX SuperPOD with DGX B200 systems exceeding 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This makes SoftBank's AI ...Full Article
Stargate Project Launches with $500B AI Investment Led by SoftBank and OpenAI
Jan. 22, 2025 -- The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the ...Full Article
NVIDIA Supports SoftBank in Building AI Supercomputer, Unveils AI-Driven Telecom Network
TOKYO, Nov. 13, 2024 -- NVIDIA has announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan’s sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also ...Full Article
SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with Graphcore Acquisition
BRISTOL, England, July 12, 2024 -- Graphcore today announced that the company has been acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. Under the deal, Graphcore becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of ...Full Article
2021: An Incredible Year of AI in Review
From the still-menacing COVID-19 pandemic to new virus variants and overwhelmed hospitals, to extreme weather events, continuing global supply chain issues and a world clamoring for some semblance of ...Full Article
Incoming Qualcomm CEO Says He May Have a Better Idea About Nvidia’s Proposed Acquisition of Arm
Nvidia may have announced its blockbuster $40 billion acquisition plans for chip IP vendor Arm back in September 2020, but now the incoming CEO of chip vendor Qualcomm is ...Full Article
Reports: Nvidia Deal for Arm Advances
Update: Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8pm ET, Arm and Nvidia announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank in a transaction valued at $40 ...Full Article
Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated, analysts said the ...Full Article
