Overview

• Masayoshi Son announced that SoftBank will phase out human programmers by assigning roughly 1,000 autonomous AI agents to each software role
• The company aims to launch its first billion AI agents by December 2025 with a long-term vision of scaling the fleet into the trillions
• Each agent is designed to operate 24/7, learn independently, collaborate on tasks from coding to contract negotiations and cost about 40 yen per month
• SoftBank is expanding data-center and power infrastructure and developing custom operating systems to manage continuous AI agent operations
• Son describes AI hallucinations as a temporary issue and is banking on imminent advances toward artificial general intelligence to underwrite the strategy