Large-Scale AI Projects Face Execution Hurdles & Funding Challenges

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SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground

Posted by u/mitousa•07/23/2025

Top Comments

u/twerq

Ah, was confused. Ty!

u/risk_is_our_business

They shoulda focused on anti gravity

u/Sypheix

As someone who has worked with Softbank before, they are absolute clowns with no idea what they're doing. It's a complete joke

u/imaginary_num6er

He is known to make investments based on his gut and not based on risk

u/DaytonaPanda

Masayoshi is just an One-Hit-Wonder with Alibaba.

u/rnilf

> Son has long craved a prominent seat at the AI table. Over the past decade, he devoted the two largest startup funds ever raised—more than $140 billion—to finding the AI companies of the

u/Tucancancan

Maybe they should cut Larry Ellison another $30B cheque lol

u/valuecolor

Perpetual motion machine.

u/twerq

WSJ is owned by Bezos who competes with OpenAI in the datacenter build race

u/ricosmith1986

Was he behind the wheel when they bought Sprint and started making all the wrong moves there too? I know they at least wanted make Mauricio Claure CEO of WeWork at some point.

u/nova9001

Fun part is most of it isn't his money. I have no idea why people keep handing him larges sums of money. WeWorks would likely stand as one of the dumbest investments of all time.

u/CatalyticDragon

I'm not even sure it counts as an investment at that point.