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SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant's future on AI
CNBC·2025-08-11 09:29

In this articleMasayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMasayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence.Son says artificial superintelligence (ASI) — AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans — will be here in 10 years. It's a bold call — but perhaps not surpri ...