SoftBank → OpenAI: $3B cloud & services
SoftBank to spend $3 billion a year on OpenAI products (Crystal Intelligence). SoftBank commits to spend $3 billion a year to use OpenAI solutions across its companies; the SB OpenAI Japan JV is created to sell 'Crystal Intelligence' to Japanese businesses.
This deal is 3% of everything SoftBank pays and 2% of everything OpenAI receives in this database.
- Date
- Feb 3, 2025
- Paid by
🇯🇵 SoftBank- Received by
OpenAI- Type
- Cloud & services
- Amount
- $3B
- Status
- announced
- Note
- per year
Sources
All deals between SoftBank and OpenAI
- Feb 3, 2025 SoftBank → OpenAI · SoftBank to spend $3 billion a year on OpenAI products (Crystal Intelligence) $3B
- Mar 31, 2025 SoftBank → OpenAI · SoftBank leads $40 billion round at $300 billion $30B
- Feb 27, 2026 SoftBank → OpenAI · SoftBank puts another $30 billion into OpenAI $30B
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