Among the investors in OpenAI, Softbank is the one that looks most like a rookie. Many major investors are playing the 'empty-handed wolf game,' exchanging resources for equity, like Microsoft, Amazon, and NVIDIA. Although the investment details haven’t been disclosed, even if they invested cash, it’s likely tied to conditions requiring the funds to be used for purchasing cloud services, hardware, or computing power—because OpenAI itself needs these resources. Masayoshi Son, on the other hand, sold off assets and put down a whopping $40 billion in cold hard cash, going all in.