Source: International Business Times
France's President Emmanuel Macron watches SoftBank group Chairman and CEO Japanese businessman Masayoshi Son and Schneider Electric CEO Olivier Blum signing agreements at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on June 1, 2026, ahead of the "Choose France" event. Getty Images SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said the current artificial intelligence boom is significantly larger than the internet-driven expansion of the late 1990s and early 2000s, as the Japanese investment giant pushes forward with one of Europe's largest AI infrastructure projects. Speaking in Paris on Monday, Son said the AI revolution is "probably 50x bigger" than the dot-com era and described it as "the biggest revolution of technology and realization that mankind ever experienced," according to CNBC.
