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According to Bloomberg,SoftBank<\/a>FounderMasayoshi Son<\/a>Plans to raise $100 billion (about 721 billion yuan) to establish an AI chip company. Son hopes the company will complement ARM HOLDINGS PLC.<\/p>\n Sun Zhengyi named this artificial intelligence chip enterprise project "Izanagi<\/a>\u201d, who is directly leading the project. Izanagi is the god of creation and life in Japanese mythology. People familiar with the matter said that Masayoshi Son chose this name in part because it includes general artificial intelligence (AI).AGI<\/a>)'s first letters.<\/p>\n In terms of project funding, one option currently under consideration is:SoftBank will provide US$30 billion (currently approximately RMB 216.3 billion) in funds, and another US$70 billion (currently approximately RMB 504.7 billion) in funds may come from institutions in the Middle East.<\/strong>But details on where the funding for the project will come from and where the future funds will be spent have yet to be determined.<\/p>\n According to previous reports by IT Home, Masayoshi Son is quite optimistic about the development of AI and claims that he is a "heavy user" of ChatGPT and communicates with ChatGPT "almost every day."<\/p>\n Last October, Son said he believed general artificial intelligence (AGI) would be achieved within 10 years.AGI stands for "AI that surpasses human intelligence in almost all areas"<\/span>.<\/p>\n ARM, a British chip design company under SoftBank, landed on the Nasdaq last year and raised $4.87 billion (currently about RMB 35.113 billion). Just as ARM went public, Masayoshi Son once again stated that he is a "loyal believer" in artificial intelligence and that ARM is the "core" beneficiary of the artificial intelligence revolution.<\/p>\n And at the Shareholders' Conference last June 21th, Sun Ju showed a slide called Evolution Speed, showing a chart of human evolution. From the birth of human beings to the agricultural revolution, the curve was completely flat, and it rose slightly during the transition from the industrial revolution to the information revolution. He said at the time that, in the coming years, the curve would rise sharply as a result of the development of artificial intelligence and that the slope was close to the vertical line\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Bloomberg, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son plans to raise $100 billion (about 721 billion yuan) to set up an AI chip company. Masayoshi hopes the company will complement ARM HOLDINGS PLC. Sun named the AI chip business project \"Izanagi\" and he is directly leading the project. Izanagi is the god of creation and life in Japanese mythology. Sources close to the project revealed that Masayoshi Sun is using the name in part because it contains the initials of General Artificial Intelligence (AGI). In terms of funding for the project, one option currently under consideration is for SoftBank to provide $30 billion (currently about 216.3 billion yuan) in funding, with another $70 billion (when<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[151,1255,1254,1253],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-agi","tag-izanagi","tag-1254","tag-1253"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","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=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}