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Softbank lost 99% when the dotcom bubble burst, now it’s all-in on AI

Softbank Group stocks reached an all-time-high on a market capitalization of $97.2 billion.

Softbank Group Corporation’s stock rose 1.5% to reach an all-time-high on Tuesday, July 2. The high mark comes just a few years after the company saw its shares plummet amid the closure of numerous high-profile tech startups, including WeWork, and a tech sector crackdown by the Chinese government.

Analysts have largely attributed the Japanese company’s recent uptick to its pivot toward artificial intelligence and the performance of its computing subsidiary Arm Holdings.

As Cointelegraph recently reported, company founder and chairman Masayoshi Son recently announced that Softbank would pursue greater involvement in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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Softbank CEO says company’s purpose is to create ‘artificial super intelligence’

Billionaire finance mogul Masayoshi Son also said that AI will be 10,000X smarter than humans by 2035.

The founder and CEO of Japanese investment conglomerate Softbank, Masayoshi Son, believes artificial intelligence (AI) will be one to 10 times smarter than humans by 2030 and 10,000 times smarter by 2035. 

Son’s comments came during Softbank’s annual meeting in Tokyo on June 21. There, he addressed employees in what’s being called an emotional speech laying out the company’s priorities going forward.

The main takeaway from Son’s commentary appears to be that Softbank is dedicating itself to the development of an “artificial super intelligence” (ASI) that’ll be capable of upending human life as we know it.

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