{"id":21657,"date":"2025-09-14T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21657\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:42:06","slug":"masayoshi-son-is-going-big-on-openai-time-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21657\/","title":{"rendered":"Masayoshi Son Is Going Big on OpenAI. Time to Worry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When Masayoshi Son bets big, it either marks the dawn of an era, or the dusk of a tech cycle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The chairman of SoftBank Group Corp. has enjoyed some spectacular wins. Spotting Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2014-05-07\/son-makes-58-billion-on-alibaba-with-buffett-type-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">handed SoftBank $58 billion<\/a> when the Chinese e-commerce firm went public a decade ago. A $32 billion take-private deal of ARM Holdings Plc in 2016, followed by a timely listing of the chip designer in 2023 when the AI theme took off, gave Son another windfall. ARM now accounts for roughly half of SoftBank\u2019s portfolio value. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Masayoshi Son bets big, it either marks the dawn of an era, or the dusk of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,8175,18975,218,219,9031,61,60,18974,6604,18977,1884,80,18976,195,11510],"class_list":{"0":"post-21657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alibaba-group-holding-sp-adr","10":"tag-arm-holdings-plc-adr","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-c-suite","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-masayoshi-son","17":"tag-openai-inc","18":"tag-softbank-group-corp","19":"tag-startups","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-valuation","22":"tag-venture-capital","23":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}