{"id":11443,"date":"2024-05-28T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T01:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T01:22:31","slug":"%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6%e8%ae%a1%e5%88%92%e5%90%91-ai-%e9%a1%b9%e7%9b%ae%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84%e8%bf%91-90-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8c%e8%bf%9b%e4%b8%80%e6%ad%a5%e5%8a%a0%e9%80%9f%e8%bf%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/11443.html","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank plans to invest nearly $9 billion in AI projects to further accelerate its &quot;most radical&quot; transformation yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"1e6a\">According to a report by the Financial Times on Sunday local time,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [softbank]]\" target=\"_blank\" >SoftBank<\/a>Plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e9%a1%b9%e7%9b%ae\" title=\"[SEE ARTICLES WITH [AI PROJECT] LABELS]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Projects<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >invest<\/a> 9 billion US dollars (currently approximately RMB 65.34 billion) to accelerate its &quot;most radical&quot; transformation process to date.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"402b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11444\" title=\"e1454ec2-9353-4db3-a137-3b06b7870e95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/e1454ec2-9353-4db3-a137-3b06b7870e95.png\" alt=\"e1454ec2-9353-4db3-a137-3b06b7870e95\" width=\"941\" height=\"1145\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"fe51\">SoftBank is reportedly still &quot;reserve firepower&quot; for bigger deals, and the company&#039;s founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has repeatedly stressed his belief in artificial intelligence and the need to &quot;reshape the company.&quot;<span class=\"accentTextColor\">In the 12 months since Son announced that SoftBank was ready to &quot;go on the offensive,&quot; SoftBank&#039;s investments and commitments have more than doubled compared to previous years.<\/span>, reaching US$8.9 billion (currently about RMB 64.614 billion). SoftBank said it is willing to maintain or even exceed this amount if there is a suitable super-large transaction.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"866c\">Son believes artificial intelligence will be the source of future growth, and he is trying to reshape SoftBank and its risk-taking Vision Funds to continue to play a role in what he sees as the next stage of humanity.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"043a\">According to IT Home, Masayoshi Son said in October last year that he believed that general artificial intelligence (AGI) would be achieved within 10 years. He believed that<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Generative AI such as ChatGPT is developing rapidly, and AGI is believed to be 10 times smarter than all human intelligence combined.<\/span>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank plans to invest $9 billion (currently about 65.34 billion yuan) in AI projects, aiming to accelerate its \"most radical\" transformation to date, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. According to the report, SoftBank is still \"reserving its firepower\" for bigger deals, and founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has been emphasizing his belief in AI and the need to \"reinvent the company\". In the past 12 months since Masayoshi announced that SoftBank was ready to \"launch a counter-offensive,\" SoftBank has more than doubled its investment and commitment spending compared to previous years to $8.9 billion (currently about 64.614 billion yuan). SoftBank has said it is willing to maintain or even exceed that amount if the right mega-deal comes along. Masayoshi Son believes that artificial intelligence will be<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[173,377,1253],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-377","tag-1253"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}