Newly established company SB OpenAI Japan aims to make the most of US President Donald Trump's Stargate initiative and will be jointly owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI.
CEO of SoftBank Masayoshi Son and head of OpenAI Sam Altman spoke at an event in Tokyo about their cooperation and invited Japanese companies to join.
Son, who held a bright blue crystal ball as a symbolic prop, said his AI Cristal service can be used by companies for planning, marketing, email and discovering legacy source code.
Cristal will initially be deployed in Son's own SoftBank Group companies, which include semiconductor and software company Arm and electronic payment service PayPay. SoftBank said it plans to spend $3 billion (€2.9 billion) a year to integrate Cristal across all its companies. "It will be superintelligence for the company. I'm excited." Son told journalists and other attendees at the Transforming Business through AI event.
Altman talked about the just-announced "deep research" that allows ChatGPT to perform more complex tasks, including preparing reports by crawling the web and searching thousands of sources, much faster than a human worker.
In-depth research will be available in Japanese, he said.
"This partnership with SoftBank will accelerate our vision to bring transformational AI to some of the world's most influential companies, starting in Japan," Altman said.
SoftBank and OpenAI, along with Oracle, are part of the Stargate project backed by President Trump, which will invest up to $500 billion (CZK 4.9 billion) in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States.
Son said Stargate will expand to Japan and other countries.
The tech sector has been rocked by the recent announcement by Chinese upstart DeepSeek that it has come up with a very effective but cheap artificial intelligence.
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