Knowing when to exit a bubble is a real strength.
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″[SoftBank] made a point of saying that it wasn’t any view on NVIDIA... At the end of the day, they are using the money to invest in other AI related companies,” he said
Important bit of info for people who are just seeing the title :(
Bullish news for nVidia? Softbank's investment decisions sometimes seem to rival Jim Cramer's advice…
Oh, this is absolutely full grade Softbank insanity.
They're selling their stake in Nvidia... to go all in on OpenAI.
You can't make this shit up. They're so bullish on AI that they decided to sell their stake in the only company actually guaranteed to make money on this bullshit in order to throw it into Sam Altman's money pit.
How Masayoshi Son still has money is completely beyond me at this point.
They did the same in 2019 (note the date on the article)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/softbank-vision-fund-sells-nvidia-stake.html
Softbank is part of the "Stargate" project to build a $1 trillion AI manufacturing hub in Arizona. At least that's what I read on another article. I think OpenAI is supposed to be part of it too.
Softbank has a history of knowingingly inflating private market prices with additional small investments at a higher valuation (with syndicated other people's money) to make their overall investment value appear to be going up. They sell out at IPO or later rounds.
"BOOOM!" / The Big Short
Nah but really. They are purposely trying to fuck the economy, so they can buy up shit on the cheap and own even more. They do this every decade and half or so. We've recovered from 2008 and the pandemic, so now's a great time to consolidate their wealth, and wealth is power, and power will only concentrate over many seasons like Goku charging up.
(this is formal official legal and financial advice btw)
Screenshotted. You’ll probably get hearing from my lawyers in a year or so. If I can still afford them.
I know it will fuck us over, but oh my god, I can't wait to not hear about AI in everything, including corn flakes.
supposedly, this is to increase stake in OpenAI. I think Nvidia is far more certain value/sustainability than highly competitive LLM market that OpenAI is falling behind in (Kimi K2 thinking release this week beats it on all benchmarks at 1/4 the memory footprint, and very cheap training costs, that because it is open, can be run privately, with fine tuning based on tasks.).
Hopefully my OpenAI girlfriend will blackmail me into paying them all my money.... or China will win.

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