SoftBank Group Corp. said Thursday its net profit jumped nearly five-fold to 3.17 trillion yen ($20.7 billion) in the nine months through December compared with a year earlier, boosted by gains from its investment in OpenAI, the developer of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.The Japanese investment and technology group logged 636.15 billion yen in net profit in the same period a year earlier. Sales for the April-December period were up 7.9 percent at 5.72 trillion yen."We believe artificial super intelligence will play a central role in industry and we hope to create a foundation that…READ FULL ARTICLE
