SoftBank Dumped $5.8B Worth of Nvidia Shares—But It's Not Bearish on AI

SoftBank just cleared out its entire Nvidia position after holding 32.1M shares, but before you panic—they’re not abandoning AI. They’re just pivoting.

Here’s what happened: SoftBank made a $5.8B exit from Nvidia, marking the second time they’ve bailed on NVDA completely (first exit was 2019). Why? They’re redirecting capital into OpenAI and the Stargate Project—a $500B AI infrastructure joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX.

The calculus is simple: Nvidia gave them infrastructure exposure (GPU chips, data center gear). OpenAI gives them software exposure (models, applications, enterprise tools). SoftBank’s betting the next wave of AI value sits upstream in the software/model layer, not just downstream in hardware.

Financially it makes sense—NVDA ran 1,280%+ over five years; taking profits to fund higher-risk bets is classic SoftBank playbook.

The real take: Don’t mirror corporate M&A moves 1:1. Your portfolio constraints ≠ theirs. If anything, SoftBank’s rebalancing is a reminder to check whether you’re overweight in mega-cap semiconductors. But Nvidia’s fundamentals (62% revenue growth, 66% data center growth) haven’t deteriorated—they just rotated out, not exited AI entirely.

Dollar-cost averaging into quality companies still beats timing the market.