SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son told shareholders on Wednesday that artificial intelligence remains in its early stages and any suggestion of a market bubble constitutes a “blasphemy against AI,” adding religious significance to SoftBank’s massive investments in AI companies like Sam Altman’s OpenAI.

Reuters reports that speaking at SoftBank’s annual general meeting in Tokyo, the 68-year-old entrepreneur delivered a passionate defense of AI investments amid growing investor skepticism about the sustainability of the current rally. Son, who has guided SoftBank through multiple market cycles including the dot-com boom and bust and the…

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