While many venture capitalists view Son’s sermons about the coming AI age as nothing more than marketing, the billionaire is already pushing his own companies to prepare for the future where every industry is redefined by the technology. — Bloomberg
SoftBank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son has a solution to Japan’s decades-long economic malaise. Not surprisingly, it involves artificial intelligence.
Japan can boost growth by joining with India and Southeast Asian countries in creating a common AI platform, Son told scientists and government bureaucrats who gathered in Tokyo on Tuesday for the government’s Moonshot symposium. He envisions Japan taking a leading role and believes the combined populations and markets could give the countries a fighting chance against the behemoths of China and the US, which share the lead in AI, he said.
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