SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has visited India for discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and prominent startup leaders, focusing on artificial intelligence development and implementation strategies.

Japan's SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son sees India's potential to emerge as a big player in chip design due to geopolitical reasons and asked founders of his portfolio companies in the country to work on artificial intelligence with 10 years perspective, according to sources.

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SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son urged the founders of his portfolio startups in India to “work” on AI with a 10-year perspective.

The meeting convened a powerhouse of India’s startup ecosystem, including Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm), Naveen Tewari (InMobi), and Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy.

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The source added that Son met Mukesh Ambani - India's richest man and chairman of oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries - on Tuesday.

MUMBAI: Billionaire investor and SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son met PM Narendra Modi and 20 startup founders in New Delhi on Wednesday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told TOI.Son's India visit comes at a time when a clutch of SoftBank's portfolio startups including Swiggy,

SoftBank is eyeing more bets in AI in India and also after having reaped huge gains with the public listings of the companies it backs like that of Swiggy

The billionaire founder of Japan's SoftBank Group on Tuesday, November 26, met Mukesh Ambani, the richest person of India and chairman of oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL),