The SoftBank Billionaire Who Wanted to Buy Nvidia is Offering Trump a $100 Billion Investment

Masayoshi Son (the SoftBank CEO) seems to operate in a parallel universe where "budget constraints" are a myth and billion-dollar gambles are just Tuesday. Case in point: his $1.5 billion stake in OpenAI, the AI chatbot run by Sam Altman, who famously insists, “I don’t do this for the money.” (Sure, Sam, and I subscribe to Netflix just for the documentaries.) And if that wasn’t enough to turn heads, Son once offered to help Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang buy the entire company. Guess what? Huang said no.

Anyways, Son’s next move makes even those power plays look like Chuck E Cheese token money (remember those?). Reportedly, the Japanese tech tycoon is heading to Mar-a-Lago to meet with The Donald Trump, where he’s set to announce a $100 billion investment in the United States over the next four years. (That’s “billion” in case you thought your contacts were smudged).

(Source: The New York Times)

The investment promises to create 100,000 jobs focused on artificial intelligence and related infrastructure before the end of Trump’s first term. (Whether or not Son’s counting unpaid AI interns is unclear.) The cash could flow from various SoftBank-controlled sources, including its infamous $100 billion Vision Fund or chipmaker Arm Holdings.

(Source: Marketplace.org)

Son has been a long-time AI hype man. Just last month, he declared the need for “hundreds of billions of dollars” to realize the potential of artificial superintelligence. So when he told reporters he was “saving up funds to make the next big move,” apparently he wasn’t kidding. For Son, saving up doesn’t mean clipping coupons… it means deploying more cash than the GDP of some countries.

Speaking of big moves, remember when Son tried to bankroll Jensen Huang to buy out Nvidia? Back in 2016, when Nvidia stock was trading at a laughable $2 (split-adjusted), Son told Huang, “The market doesn’t understand your value.” He wasn’t wrong… today Nvidia is worth $3.6 trillion, and Huang’s net worth has ballooned to $129 billion. Son’s pitch? He’d lend Huang the cash to take Nvidia private. Huang passed, calling it “a good dream.” But during a recent AI summit, Huang admitted, “Now I regret not taking you up.” Meanwhile, Son pretended to cry about selling SoftBank’s 4.9% Nvidia stake in 2019 for $4 billion… a position that would now be worth over $175 billion. “We can cry together,” Huang joked. (You know, billionaire problems.)

SoftBank’s $100 billion U.S. investment isn’t just about AI world domination… it’s Son’s way of saying, “I’m playing a different game than you peasants.”

What’s next? Maybe he’ll decide to terraform Mars before Elon Musk. Or fund a global AI competition where the winner gets control of, well, everything. Either way, this is a huge deal for Trump to try to keep this bubbly AI ball rolling during his second term.

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