SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son Returns and Aims for AI Leadership with $10 Billion Project

TapTechNews July 5th news, according to TheInformation report, after SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son was silent for about a year, he has recently reappeared in the public eye and hopes to build SoftBank into a leader in the AI field.

Reports citing informed sources said that SoftBank has contacted several banks to discuss financing for an AI energy-related project. It is reported that the total planned investment of the project is 10 billion US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 72.828 billion RMB yuan), and the project involves energy supply in the AI era and extensive use of Nvidia's AI accelerator cards, etc.

Masayoshi Son expounded on his vision of the future world last month, believing that an artificial superintelligence (ASI) will evolve in the future, and there will be an AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans in the next 10 years.