“SoftBank will deploy one billion AI agents internally this year [2025] — active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and interacting with each other — with roughly 1,000 AI agents needed to replace each employee, because employees have complex thought processes.”

Masayoshi SonCEO

Founder, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group

SoftBank came nowhere near a billion: in December 2025 SoftBank Corp. publicised 2.5 million internally created AI agents as a landmark achievement — roughly 0.25% of the target — and Son had already conceded at announcement that the goal was 'challenging' and that the orchestration software did not yet exist.