SoftBank races to fulfill $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end

By Echo Wang, Miho Uranaka and Krystal Hu NEW YORK/TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group (SFTBY) is racing to close a $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a sale of some investments, and could tap its undrawn margin loans borrowed against its valuable ownership in chip firm Arm Holdings (ARM), sources said. The "all-in" bet ​on OpenAI is among the biggest yet by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, as the Japanese b ...