Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he turned down a chance to buy out the chip giant, while SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son regretted selling the stock early.

In gunmetal grey jacket and a Jobs-esque black turtleneck, Masayoshi Son has a heartening message for the world.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son recently shared a few laughs and some bittersweet memories at the AI Summit in Tokyo. At the center of their banter? SoftBank’s former role as Nvidia’s largest shareholder – and how they decided to let that golden opportunity slip away.

At Nvidia’s AI Summit in Tokyo on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had the audience laughing over a candid reflection on SoftBank's missed investment gains. Huang reminded the crowd,

At Nvidia's AI Summit in Japan, SoftBank announced its plan to build Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer using Nvidia's DGX B200 product. Nvidia CE

CEO Jensen Huang said at an event in Tokyo that Japanese investment giant SoftBank was once the largest shareholder of Nvidia Corp. Both companies now plan to collaborate in the AI industry.

When I started working on a book about Nvidia in early May 2023, the artificial-intelligence boom was still in its infancy. Based on my years covering the chip sector, and tech more broadly, I was confident the party was just getting started,

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.