Some media outlets have cited information from informed sources reporting that the legendary investor Masayoshi Son's Japanese investment giant $SoftBank Group (ADR) (SFTBY.US)$ is racing against time, planning to complete a funding commitment of up to $22.5 billion to the developer of ChatGPT, OpenAI, by the end of the year through a series of fundraising schemes, which include selling a portion of its long-held investments and may leverage its valuable equity in the leading chip design company $Arm Holdings (ARM.US)$ as collateral to borrow those unused margin loans.

This significant "heavy investment" by SoftBank Group in OpenAI is one of the largest moves by SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son in the field of artificial intelligence to date.