SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son said on Monday that his high -tech investment company and ChatBot Chatgpt developer ChatBot Chatgpt have established a joint venture to promote corporate AI services.
The new 50-50 venture named SB OPENAI JAPAN, using a large amount of data stored in the client company’s system to provide the optimal management solution, his son stated in a speech at an event in Tokyo.
“We will launch from Japan, the world’s first AI service for large companies,” said his son, added that it will expand the use of AI to other fields such as the government, medical and education sector. 。
CEO Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group will be lecture at an event held in Tokyo on February 3, 2025 (Kyodo).
In the second half of the day, his son met the Japanese Prime Minister at the Prime Minister’s office to report the latest movements in the Prime Minister’s office. China’s startup Deepseek chatbot has recently attracted great global attention.
At a meeting, Isva said, “We will take measures to strengthen cooperation between Japan and the United States on artificial intelligence.”
Sam Altman, the head of the open -rye who met Isva with his son, told the reporters after the rally.
The two companies said last month that they would form a new company with Oracle Corp.. He said that it would invest at least $ 500 billion in US AI infrastructure under the Stargate project.
Initiatives in the United States will be announced in front of President Donald Trump at a press conference in the White House, aiming to build large -scale cutting -edge data centers in the United States to accelerate AI development.
SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son (L) and Sam Altman, the head of Openai, will be spoken at an event held in Tokyo on February 3, 2025 (Kyodo).
Calling SB Openai Japan, Son, a Japanese version of the Stargate project, stated that SoftBank would be the first customer of the venture and pay about $ 3 billion per year to use the service throughout the group. 。
My son also wants to set up a data center in Japan to support projects in Asian countries, emphasizes that client information is managed in Japan and the details of each customer are not shared with other customers. He said he was there.
He stated that SoftBank dispatched about 1,000 employees to a new company to support the launch of new services, and Openai will dispatch some engineers.
In recent years, SoftBank Group has focused on investing in AI’s emerging companies. The company has strengthened efforts to build AI infrastructure in Japan, announced a plan to build a data center for development of AI in Osaka, and established another one in Hokkaido.
Related coverage:
SoftBank, Openai, and Oracle invest a $ 500 billion in US AI: Trump
Trump taps the glass of investment banks as a US ambassador
Trump’s SoftBank son pledges $ 100 billion in the United States
