SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has reiterated his clear stand regarding the ASI, which he expects will be around by 2035. Delivering a lecture at a World IT conference in Riyadh, he said ASI is a system that can be far more intelligent than humans by a factor of 10000. His statements are provided in continuation of an on-going discourse regarding the direction and potential effects of technological advancement on the social, innovative, and investment framework.
SoftBank Vision 2035 Masayoshi Son Predicts Super-Intelligence AI 10,000 Times Smarter Than Humans
Son was insistent that to achieve ASI, to which he expressed readiness to commit, would require trillions of dollars. He further said that, this is a significant investment that is required to support the need to develop the improvement of computation power and data processing, as well as to support the development of AI technologies. It is interesting to note that the CEO has underlined the company’s strategic direction of making it a significant mover in defining the role of AI in the future of business as the company is already on an active investment spree on AI and tech firms across the world.
For Son, ASI could be a pinnacle, an apex that marks new forms of solving problems, doing more and knowing more. He sees himself imagining under what conditions ASI could solve problems that people might not be able to solve, which in the future could change industries like health, protecting the natural environment, or scientific research. This Line of positive thinking corresponds with his overall worldview regarding AI in general as the key to the future of the World.
However, there is some worry on how ASI is going to be achieved and this is discussed below. A lot of professionals are concerned with categories that are ethical, governance, control, and societal implications of implementing superintelligent AI systems. Son agreed with these facts and said that to overcome such problems, it is critically important to have proactive regulation and governance framework in order to make ASI’s development to happen more responsibly.
Son’s plan for ASI to occur in little over a decade has drawn considerable debate from the technology world. That said, the following projections by Son have many doubting his credibility, yet his prior demonstration of supporting life-changing technology ventures make the numbers significant. If so, he has painted global goals for 2035, that, in terms of intelligence, capability and interaction with the technology, may greatly alter the world around us.
Masayoshi Son’s $900 Trillion Vision SoftBank Gears Up for the Next AI Revolution
SoftBank Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son recently said he is deliberately building up cash for his next big bet. To some extent, such vague suggestion let people guess what direction SoftBank would take in the future, even though he himself did not disclose it. Son’s investments have been strategic over the year, as he has founded his empire on these rightful investments such as mobile Internet and E-commerce.
During the speech Son pointed the major capital which future developments of generative AI may require. He estimated that about $ 900 trillion cumulative would be invested in data centers and an advanced chip technology by the time AI would be developed. This figure alone clearly reflects Son’s viewpoint of AI as a risky undertaking that will revolutionize operations and markets.
He was particularly bullish about the semiconductors space, saying that NVIDIA, a leading chip maker, isoux; still cheap. Even now, NVIDIA technology underpins a vast amount of today’s AI progress, and Son believes that its part will only become even larger as the need for the AI processing increases. His view is a boost to the narrative of semiconductors as symbiotic with Artificial Intelligence’s future.
Being the founder of a renowned tech giant built on risky bets on new technology, it is impossible to deny that Son is keen on maintaining that position. His vision has more often than not generated fantastic returns and the current one points to uptick come AI and hardware advancement with immense demands for investment.
Any future actions of SoftBank will now be keenly observed, especially given that Son is a supporter of generative AI. He has a rather brave vision of the financial development; he keeps money on the balance for future operations, showing that he wants SoftBank to be ready to navigate through the next wave of technological changes.
High Stakes and Hard Lessons Son’s Vision Fund Rollercoaster Amid $2.4 Billion Setback
What started as a revolutionary trend in venture capital management, namely Masayoshi Son’s Vision Funds, did not have a very consistent record. The IPO-class size funds were begun in 2017 as a strategy to fund high growth startup companies and transform the tech sector. Nevertheless, most of these big unconventional bets have not worked well with several of the portfolio companies failing to sustain the valuation at their onset.
There has therefore been a decline in the performance of the Vision Funds. Altogether, as of June 2024, the funds unveiled the operating deficit of $2.4 billion to prove the high risk in the investments of technological startups. This is brought about by a change in market opinion where some high-growth firms have lost significantly value.
The Vision Fund’s largest supporter is Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, which committed $45bn to the first fund. This contribution boosted the PIF’s Vision Fund to better position for achieving defining investments in sectors such as artificial intelligence and e-commerce. This investment partnership reveals the rationale of cooperation between SoftBank and Saudi Arabia .
However, these Twlight zones do not discourage Son and he has continued to cherish his vision for revolutionary and ground breaking technologies. His passion to go for big changes, new interesting and innovative ideas has brought successes and failures alike. This ability to take risks continues to place SoftBank in the middle of the tech sector vital conversation.
Every new shift that Son makes is still in more choppy waters, let alone the future of the Vision Funds. Critics will ask how and when such highly risky investments would be sustainable, but in all the strategies that were visible, it seems that Son still has more to unfold.