By Sam Nussey and Anton Bridge TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's plan to invest billions in AI in the United States shows one way to handle the new Trump administration: go big and deal with the details later.

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump’s big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump’s big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant farmer with a spectacular but also sketchy investment

SOFTBANK Group and OpenAI each plan to commit US$19 billion of capital to Stargate, the US$100 billion US artificial intelligence (AI) endeavour President Donald Trump unveiled this week, the Information reported.

The president said it will be the largest AI infrastructure ever built and that it will help counter technology threats from China and other countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on January 21 that Japan's SoftBank Group, Open AI and Oracle will together

OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.

The Trump Administration has announced an AI infrastructure joint venture in the U.S. named “Stargate,” comprised of OpenAI, SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBF) (OTC:SFTBY), Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL), and Abu Dhabi’s MGX.

Microsoft’s chief executive has gone viral for a “gangster” response to comments by Elon Musk trashing President Donald Trump’s $US500 billion ($795 billion) AI mega-project.

Arm stock jumped yesterday on the news about Stargate, a new AI infrastructure project targeting $100 billion to $500 billion in investment, as Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son was one of the three tech chiefs at the announcement, and Softbank, which owns about 90% of Arm, is in charge of financing the project.

Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981. It has invested millions in some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies.