SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by around 2030 (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)

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Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by around 2030 — SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year …

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