Asia Tech Wire (Oct 31) -- SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he is preparing tens of billions of dollars for his next big move as he attended the 8th annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

He also talked about the expected realization of artificial superintelligence (ASI) by 2035, which has 10,000 times the intelligence of humans.

Son said that it would require a cumulative investment of $9 trillion and 200 million semiconductors to realize super AI.

Regarding ASI, he also estimated that the average annual net profit in the future will reach 4 trillion dollars.