SoftBank Group acquired Ampere for $6.5 billion and made massive investments in WeWork and OpenAI, with Masayoshi Son comparing its strategy to Amazon and Microsoft.
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Updated Jun 27
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What happened
SoftBank Group acquired Ampere for $6.5 billion and made massive investments in WeWork and OpenAI, with Masayoshi Son comparing its strategy to Amazon and Microsoft.
Who's involved
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The entities involved
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Ampere
electric vehicle and software company to be spun off from Groupe Renault
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SoftBank Group
Japanese company
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OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research organization
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