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Anton Shilov

Softbank once offered Jensen Huang a loan to buy Nvidia entirely — Nvidia CEO regrets not taking the loan

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At Nvidia’s AI Summit in Tokyo this week, Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, and Masayoshi Son, the head of SoftBank, expressed regrets that the former did not privatize Nvidia a decade ago when the latter offered him money to do so. As a result, the two companies have failed to merge and create an AI and supercomputer giant with CPU and GPU prowess, reports Fortune. 

At the event, the two executives discussed three critical attempts to strengthen ties, from privatization to a potential merger with Arm, which regulators stopped.

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