Technology companies are racing to build infrastructure that can further fuel the automation boom. Currently, the Japanese multinational SoftBank is reportedly planning to create a new company aimed at automating the creation of its infrastructure.
The Financial Times first reported that SoftBank is launching a new business called Roze AI. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Lohse will aim to make data center construction in the United States more “efficient.” This will be achieved by, among other things, deploying autonomous robots to help build server farms.
In an interesting development, the conglomerate is already preparing for Rose’s IPO, with some executives hoping to make it happen by late 2026, the magazine writes. The expected valuation could be $100 billion, FT reported.
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Other recent ventures also envision using AI and automation to make the industrial sector more efficient. Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, for example, co-founded a startup called Project Prometheus that plans to acquire companies in major industry sectors and modernize them using AI.
SoftBank is known for backing some dark horse startups (notably, it poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Zume, an AI-driven pizza delivery startup that went bankrupt in 2023). The FT noted that some within SoftBank have expressed skepticism “about the valuation and expected schedule of the IPO.”
