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Japan's SoftBank and OpenAI are reportedly discussing a deal that could see the telco become the ChatGPT maker's biggest single shareholder.
That title is currently held by Microsoft, which has so far ploughed $13 billion into OpenAI – more than any other individual entity.
The precise size of Microsoft's stake is hard to quantify though, because it began investing in OpenAI when it was a non-profit. As OpenAI restructures into a for-profit company, both it and Microsoft are working with investment banks to calculate how much OpenAI equity Microsoft actually controls.
Whatever that calculation comes to, it could quite soon be eclipsed by SoftBank's rumoured investment.
