#SoftBank is negotiating a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment in OpenAI's new funding round

About SoftBank is negotiating a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment in OpenAI's new funding round

According to a post within the window dated 2026-11-07, SoftBank is negotiating to invest several hundred million dollars in a new round of financing for OpenAI, while the first batch of $11 billion in this round has already been received. The valuation has shrunk from the originally planned $1.4 trillion and over $30 billion in financing to $1.25 trillion. The community is clearly divided on this: one side believes that even the leader has lowered its financing appetite, indicating that the funding chain for the AI arms race is tightening. Coupled with Microsoft and Meta shifting to bond financing, and mining companies like Core Scientific exiting Bitcoin mining to pivot to AI data centers, the bubble risk is rising; the other side views SoftBank's additional investment as a long-term bet, believing that AI computing power demand remains real. The related main themes are the AI infrastructure financing chain, mining companies' transformation, and the potential impact of tech giants' capital expenditures on the crypto market's liquidity.