{"id":525447,"date":"2026-07-14T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:50:16","slug":"softbanks-son-says-ai-boom-will-require-5tn-in-annual-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525447\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank&#8217;s Son says AI boom will require $5tn in annual investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/softbank\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoftBank<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Founder sees agents, humanoids shaping labor as AI reaches 20% of world GDP by 2040<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F2%2F6%2F4%2F1%2F12801462-1-eng-GB%2F499229afc1ab-photo_SXM2026071400003402.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260714 SoftBank World 2026\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO\u00a0Masayoshi\u00a0Son speaks during his presentation at SoftBank World 2026 in Tokyo on July 14.(Photo by Hikaru Yagi)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son said global artificial intelligence infrastructure will require $5 trillion in annual investment by 2040, as data centers, power supplies and humanoid robots expand to support what he described as a shift away from human-centered work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Founder sees agents, humanoids shaping labor as AI reaches 20% of world GDP by 2040 SoftBank Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[260033,365,4765,363,364,16424,1426,111,139,69,53656,312,89495,22639,145,1533],"class_list":["post-525447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-5tn","tag-ai","tag-annual","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-boom","tag-investment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-require","tag-says","tag-softbanks","tag-son","tag-technology","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}