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SoftBank Corp. Announces Telco AI Cloud Vision to Build Social Infrastructure for the AI Era, Leveraging Its Telecommunications Foundation
SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, "SoftBank") announced a new vision, Telco AI Cloud, aimed at building next-generation social infrastructure for the AI era by leveraging its nationwide telecommunications foundation.
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