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SoftBank is committed to spending $ 3 billion a year and its subsidiaries to use OpenAI technology, according to a joint announcement on Monday.
The two also announced a new joint venture, presented as “SB Openai Japan”, which will market Openai Tech company exclusively for large companies in Japan.
The agreement will give Softbank and its subsidiaries access to Chatgpt Enterprise, OpenAi API, personalized models and agent products such as the operator, which he describes as “an agent who can Go to the web to do tasks for you “, such as planning holidays and fill out forms. It will also include access to the new OpenAi agent function, once it is launched: a tool called “in -depth research” which, according to Openai, can perform a several steps on the web. SoftBank has marked all the OpenAi products which he will use as a series of “Cristal Intelligence” tools.
ArmThe British flea designer acquired by SoftBank in 2016, will also use OPENAI tools to “stimulate productivity through the company”, according to the announcement.
During an event in difficulty early Monday morning, which was jointly detained by Softbank, SoftBank Group, Openai and Arm, the public leaders represented companies which collectively represented more than half of the total market capitalization of Japan, according to Softbank.
During the presentation, his son said he believed that general artificial intelligence, or AGA – a vaguely defined reference referring to AI which is equivalent or exceeds human intellect on a wide range of tasks – will be A reality in less than 10 years.
His declared via a translator that he thought that “AG can be made in large companies first”. “”
The news of Softbank and Openai’s strategic partnership occurs a few days after CNBC confirmed that Optaai is in talks to collect up to $ 40 billion in a financing tour led by Softbank in Masayoshi Son to an evaluation that can go up to $ 340 billion.
SoftBank would contribute between $ 15 billion and 25 billion dollars, according to two familiar people with negotiations that have asked not to be appointed because the talks are underway. If the Tour was finished, SoftBank would exceed Microsoft as Openai Funder.
Part of the funding can be used for OpenAI’s commitment to Stargate, a joint venture between Softbank, Openai and Oracle which was introduced by President Donald Trump last week, the sources said. The plan calls on billions of dollars to invest in US IA infrastructure.
During the presentation on Monday morning, his said that he was looking forward to working with Openai, Oracle and others on the Stargate project.
Openai was last time at $ 157 billion by private investors. At the end of 2022, the company launched its chatbpt chatgpt, launching a generative AI boom. Openai closed its last $ 6.6 billion round in October, preparing to compete aggressively with the XAI of Elon Musk, as well as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Anthropic.
Meanwhile, the Chinese laboratory Deepseek has become viral in the United States, presenting a new competition in Openai. Deepseek saw its application rise at the top of Apple App Store ranking this week and has enabled the American markets that its powerful model was trained in a fraction of the cost of American competitors.
During an event in Washington, DC organized on Thursday by Openai, CEO Sam Altman said that Deepseek was “clearly a large model”.
“It is a reminder of the level of competition and the need for the democratic to win,” he said. He said that this also indicates the “level of interest in reasoning, the level of interest in open source”.
