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Jay Peters @ The Verge 3 place · today 18:59 EDT

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AGI will arrive ‘much earlier’ than he thought

SoftBank isn’t just part of the group investing $500 billion into Project Stargate to build American AI infrastructure capacity for OpenAI. 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 […]

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