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- The race is on to address the AI chip shortage.
- SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is the latest tech leader who plans to invest heavily in chip production.
- Chips are needed to train the complex models that underpin AI — but there's not enough to go around.
Tech leaders at the vanguard of the AI revolution are being forced to confront a difficult reality: they don’t have anywhere near enough computing power to fulfill their ambitions.