It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI, will spend $3 billion deploying OpenAI tech across SoftBank companies, and claims it will revolutionize business with AI agents through a new AI system called “Cristal intelligence.

In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

In a recent conversation with OpenAI chief Sam Altman, founder Masayoshi Son addressed concerns raised by X chief Elon Musk about SoftBank’s financial capacity to support ambitious projects like Stargate.