Core Viewpoint - Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, is betting on artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize technology, predicting the arrival of artificial superintelligence (ASI) within the next decade [2][5]. Group 1: SoftBank's AI Strategy - SoftBank has made significant investments in AI firms, aiming to position itself at the forefront of a technological shift [3][5]. - The company acquired chip designer Arm for approximately $32 billion in 2016, which is now valued at over $145 billion, and is focusing on AI infrastructure [6]. - SoftBank plans to invest around 4.8 trillion Japanese yen (approximately $32.7 billion) in OpenAI, among other AI-related companies [7]. Group 2: Historical Context and Vision - Son's vision for AI dates back over a decade, with early discussions about "brain computers" and robotics [11][12]. - The Vision Fund, launched in 2017 with $100 billion in capital, aimed to capitalize on AI advancements but faced challenges due to investments in companies like Uber and WeWork [13][14]. - Despite setbacks, Son remains committed to establishing a robust AI ecosystem that integrates various components of AI technology [9][10]. Group 3: Market Dynamics and Future Outlook - The AI sector is characterized by rapid advancements and high competition, particularly between U.S. and Chinese firms [21][22]. - SoftBank acknowledges the early stage of AI investment and believes there are still significant opportunities ahead [19][23]. - Son's long-term vision includes positioning SoftBank for sustained success over the next 300 years, reflecting his willingness to take substantial risks in pursuit of AI leadership [24][25].

Experts have said that within a couple of years models could reach artificial general intelligence, and reshape the global economy. GPT-5 suggests the technology could still be on track towards such a goal https://t.co/wpx66fm0Kp ...

GPT-5 can reliably handle tasks that would take a human a little over two hours. What does this mean for the achievement of artificial general intelligence? https://t.co/TiBbhs1o6Q ...

What do you think about Meta buying up talent with huge salaries and and the heating up of this battle for talent. You know, there's a strategy that that Meta is taking right now. I think that from my perspective at least, I think the people that are real believers in the mission of AGI and what it can do and understand the real consequences both good and bad from that and what's what that responsibility entails.I think they're mostly doing it to be like myself to be on the frontier of that research. So, yo ...

AGI has been achieved internally https://t.co/ddLxg9gwW9 ...

Experts have said that within a couple of years models could reach artificial general intelligence, and reshape the global economy. GPT-5 suggests the technology could still be on track towards such a goal https://t.co/dPL5EEU0om ...

RT s4mmy (@S4mmyEth)If Compute + Data = IntelligenceWhat’s stopping China from achieving AGI first?Insane electricity generation to power their GPUs (and in turn drive compute).What data sources are they using to train their models? https://t.co/EBKxRCYz3w ...

If Compute + Data = IntelligenceWhat’s stopping China from achieving AGI first?Insane electricity generation to power their GPUs (and in turn drive compute).What data sources are they using to train their models? https://t.co/EBKxRCYz3w ...

[Music] [Applause] So my background is in computational neuroscience and applied math. Um I went to Google uh about 12 years ago and uh my my first number of years that that I was working there. The the main project was to add AI features to Android and Pixel phones.So uh most of the AI uh in in those phones uh over those years came from uh teams that I built. Uh some of these features are things like uh face unlocking and um music recognition. This feature called now playing.Uh we built um predictors of ne ...

Ask OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Art by Mike Sullivan Exclusive Inside OpenAI's Rocky Path to GPT-5 The troubles OpenAI has faced in developing GPT-5 point to slowing AI progress across the industry. Researchers believe advances in reinforcement learning will help to overcome that. By Stephanie Palazzolo, Erin Woo and Amir Efrati OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better on tasks when it gets more time and computi ...