Text marketing firm Blip secures backing from SoftBank, Microsoft
Blip, which was bootstrapped until early 2020, this month closed a $60 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank, with ...
Graphcore is hiring again after its SoftBank acquisition — but what do the roles tell us about its future focus?
Graphcore currently boasts three generations of silicon, with its most recent - the Bow Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) - released in 2022. The Bow IPU delivers up to 350 teraflops of AI compute, ...
SoftBank is betting on AI and an IPO revival after swinging to a $7.7 billion profit
The Japanese firm posted a $7.7 billion quarterly profit and is ready to chase fresh profits with new AI bets and IPOs.
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Red Hat and SoftBank enhance wireless network orchestration
Leading open source provider Red Hat and Japanese IT business and comms operator SoftBank team to advance integration of AI ...
SoftBank is Nvidia's first Blackwell chips customer. Here's what they're going to be used for.
The collaboration comes amid skyrocketing demand for Nvidia chips, as companies scramble to secure supplies.
Watch: Jensen Huang reminds SoftBank's CEO he missed a $160 billion opportunity
At Nvidia’s AI Summit in Tokyo on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had the audience laughing ...
Jensen Huang reveals Softbank’s Masayoshi Son once offered to lend him money to buy Nvidia
Huang was speaking at Nvidia’s AI Summit in Tokyo where he also announced several AI collaborations with Softbank.
SoftBank first to receive new Nvidia chips for supercomputer
SoftBank's Japanese telecoms unit will receive the first chips using Nvidia's latest Blackwell design for its supercomputer, ...
SoftBank Plans Supercomputer With Nvidia Blackwell Chips
SoftBank Group Corp. will be the first to build a supercomputer with chips using Nvidia Corp.’s new Blackwell design, a ...
SoftBank books $7.7 billion quarterly gain as Vision Fund finds its feet again
Japan's SoftBank Group swung to a 1.18 trillion yen ($7.7 billion) net profit in the three months to September, as the tech ...
Japan’s SoftBank returns to profit after gains at Vision Fund and other investments
Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by its ...
Text marketing firm Take Blip secures backing from SoftBank, Microsoft
Take Blip, a conversational marketing platform, has raised a new round of funding from SoftBank and Microsoft.