Claim · 2025-01-21 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

The Stargate Project announcement of 21 January 2025 says that Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.

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What it connects

Masayoshi Son → held role at → Stargate Project

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Masayoshi Sonheld role at ↓Stargate Project

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2025-01-21 · announcement Records dated 2025 →
Role: Chairman (announced)

Scope and limitsAnnounced stays announced: a stated future role, not evidence that he took office or when. Extends the dataset's Stargate records, which cite OpenAI's copy of the announcement.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Announcing The Stargate Project

SoftBank Group Corp. and OpenAI (SoftBank Group press release) · 2025-01-22

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Source excerpt

“Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.”

Location in source Announcement, third paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: SoftBank Group Corp. and OpenAI (SoftBank Group press release)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 1519d1631f33b4ecb9e13cf516a2560a32b4641cc3df4dddad594fc651d3ffeb). SoftBank Group's press-release page dated January 22, 2025, datelined Washington, D.C., January 21, 2025. The dataset's Stargate records cite OpenAI's copy (source-stargate-2025), which refused this environment (HTTP 403); the two copies were not compared. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: SoftBank Group Corp. and OpenAI (SoftBank Group press release), “Announcing The Stargate Project”, 2025-01-22.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: The quotation (6 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item 18) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An institutional role with explicitly scoped time: snapshot, sourced interval, or unknown dates. No continuing appointment is implied.

Date. Dateline of the announcement; SoftBank's page is dated 22 January 2025. The role is prospective as announced.

Record ID pp-ex-son-stargate-chair-announced-2025