The Japanese Company Betting Billions to Prepare for the Singularity

Much like Larry Page, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has his eyes on the distant future. "I think a big paradigm shift is coming," he said during his keynote at ARM’s developer conference last year according to Venture Beat. "The biggest theme in my view is the Singularity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity . I think it is coming into reality in the next 30 years. For that vision, I am exercising that strategy. $100 billion is an interesting size of ammunition. In my view, that is the beginning."

Klint Finley

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