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Masayoshi Son says AI could be 50x bigger than dot-com and the next trillion-dollar company will come from robotics.

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-06

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son predicts AI will be 50 times larger than the dot-com era and that robotics will produce the next trillion-dollar company.

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  • Masayoshi Son believes AI will be 50 times larger in scale than the dot-com boom.
  • Son predicts the next trillion-dollar company will emerge from the robotics sector.
  • Son views the dot-com bubble peak of 2000 as a minor inflection point compared to what AI represents.

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So even dot-com there was a bubble burst, but then right after that, the peak of the dot-com bubble, the year 2000 was not really a peak. It was like a small...