A former telecoms engineer, Mr Huang founded CloudMinds in 2015, driven by the belief that the unstoppable rise of artificial intelligence and the widespread adoption of robotics would outpace the capabilities of computer chips. CloudMinds’ pitch, with its huge ideas, long-term vision and worldview centred on the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, was almost guaranteed to appeal to Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive of SoftBank Group. Overseer of the Vision Fund, the world’s largest technology investment fund, Mr Son has famously talked about his desire to invest based on a 300-year business plan, and of his belief in the imminence of “the singularity”: the point at which artificial intelligence outstrips human intelligence.
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