SoftBank Corp‘s earnings just gave a real answer to a question that’s hung over the company for years: do all those AI infrastructure bets actually pay off? The Japanese telecom giant reported a 3% rise in Q2 net income, reaching 150.1 billion yen, roughly $950 million, on revenue that climbed 9.4% to 1.81 trillion yen, about $11.5 billion. AI and cloud services did most of the heavy lifting here, with enterprise sales up 12% to $1.7 billion and operating income in that segment jumping 28%. CEO Junichi Miyakawa put it plainly on Tuesday’s earnings call: AI and cloud revenue grew 31%, and he expects that pace to hold for another two years. That business will lean on SoftBank’s existing GPU cloud, AI data center know-how, and its Infrinia cloud OS, which helps share GPU resources more efficiently across customers.