Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

Japan's SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25 billion into ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

OpenAI, as you likely know, is one of tech’s biggest unicorns. A group of entrepreneurs and researchers, including Elon Musk and the company’s current CEO Sam Altman, founded the artificial intelligence company in 2015.

Hedge funds were already waiting to see if a U.S.-fostered, home-grown artificial intelligence boom would continue as China's new AI model was emerging to challenge U.S. dominance in the sector, a Goldman Sachs note said.

Mark Murphy, an analyst from J.P. Morgan, maintained the Buy rating on Microsoft (MSFT – Research Report). The associated price target remains

SoftBank is in talks to inject up to $25 billion directly into OpenAI, positioning the Japanese tech conglomerate to become the ChatGPT maker's largest financial backer, according to initial reporting from the Financial Times on Wednesday evening.

The Chinese startup's new model poses some serious questions about the assumptions behind AI investments. But what if that's a good thing for Big Tech?

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has lagged behind the NASDAQ over the past year but is off to a strong start in 2025, outperforming the broader market.

Goldman Sachs reiterated its Buy rating and $500.00 price target for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), following the company's mixed financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025. The investment firm pointed to the ongoing investor concerns over the growth pace of Microsoft's Azure cloud services,

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The emergence of Chinese start-up DeepSeek could have upside macroeconomic implications in the medium-term should its cost reductions help usher in a period of increased competition in the development of artificial intelligence platforms,

Nvidia shares' 9% recovery Tuesday was the second-best day in terms of market cap added for any company ever—but the company faced another selloff Wednesday.