A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

President Donald Trump announced a joint venture to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure worth billions of dollars with the leaders of Softbank Group Corp., OpenAI LLC, and Oracle Corp., an effort aimed at speeding development of the emerging technology.

SoftBank is in talks to invest in OpenAI, potentially deepening the relationship between the two companies that are already planning an artificial-intelligence infrastructure initiative.