软银集团半年净利创日本史上最高

Group 1 - The core point of the article is that SoftBank Group reported a record net profit of 2.924 trillion yen for the half-year ending September 2025, driven significantly by its investments in artificial intelligence, particularly in OpenAI [2] - SoftBank's Vision Fund achieved investment income of 3.5361 trillion yen, a substantial increase from 610.3 billion yen in the same period last year, with OpenAI contributing approximately 2.1567 trillion yen, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total investment income [2] - The company has invested a total of 10.8 billion USD in OpenAI and plans to increase this investment by an additional 22.5 billion USD through its second Vision Fund [2] Group 2 - SoftBank sold approximately 90 million shares of Nvidia for about 5.83 billion USD (approximately 900 billion yen) to raise funds, and also sold around 40 million shares of T-Mobile for 9.17 billion USD and reduced its stake in Deutsche Telekom for 2.37 billion USD [2] - The company's revenue grew by 7.7% year-on-year to 3.7368 trillion yen, driven by strong demand for AI chip architecture from its UK chip design company, Arm [2] - SoftBank announced an increase in its financing limit secured by Arm shares from 13.5 billion USD to 20 billion USD [2] Group 3 - SoftBank and OpenAI established a joint venture named "SB OAI Japan" on October 5, planning to launch an enterprise AI management solution called "Crystal Intelligence" exclusively in Japan starting in 2026 [3] - The announcement positively impacted SoftBank's stock price, making it the largest contributor to the Nikkei average index increase, which rose by 88.24 points [3]