SoftBank Group approves $22.5 billion investment in OpenAI

Jinse Finance reported that SoftBank Group approved a $22.5 billion investment in OpenAI on the 25th. Previously, SoftBank made its first investment of $10 billion in OpenAI in April this year, with the funds mainly used to support OpenAI's R&D expenditures and commercialization processes, including hardware development and model training. OpenAI is advancing its $40 billion super financing plan to prepare for an eventual public listing. SoftBank is the main investor, taking on 75% of this round's financing. While receiving significant investment, OpenAI is also actively expanding into AI music. According to reports, OpenAI is cooperating with a U.S. music academy to focus on music score data, providing high-quality data for new model training. Although OpenAI has already launched music generation models, due to technical and computational cost limitations, the music generated still has a certain gap compared to human works, and there are also legal risks associated with AI-generated music. It is understood that OpenAI's generation methods based on artificial intelligence technology already cover multiple fields, including text and dialogue, image generation, and video generation. Recently, OpenAI also launched an AI browser, deeply integrating ChatGPT into the entire process.