SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says past investments ‘just a warm-up’ for AI bet

Published on July 24, 2024

Masayoshi Son speaks onstage at the annual shareholders’ meeting, with executives seated on either side of him

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son told shareholders on Friday that investments the technology group had made in the past were “just a warm-up” for his grand ambition to create an era of artificial intelligence. An energised Son told SoftBank shareholders at the group’s annual meeting that his mission was to bring about so-called artificial superintelligence, technology that he says could be significantly smarter than humans.

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