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With the company recovering from Vision Fund losses and accumulating cash, SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son is betting that it is ready to pivot heavily to AI. (Photo by Suzu Takahashi)

SoftBank's AI strategy becomes clearer but chip ambitions remain cloudy

Son aims to secure cash-rich company's role as a key player in tech's most heated segment

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son was in his element when he took the stage in Tokyo this month to lay out his vision for artificial intelligence. Holding a crystal ball in one hand, he told an audience of executives from about 500 companies how AI will bring humanity closer to a world of "stories or science fiction."

The half-trillion-dollar Stargate project that his company is spearheading, he added, would "affect the future course of humanity" with its investment in AI infrastructure.

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