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SoftBank isn’t conscionable portion of the group investing $500 cardinal into Project Stargate to build American AI infrastructure capacity for OpenAI. It’s besides making a Japanese associated task pinch OpenAI, will walk $3 cardinal deploying OpenAI tech crossed SoftBank companies, and claims it will revolutionize business pinch AI agents through a caller AI strategy called “Cristal intelligence.”
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who besides invested billions successful WeWork, claimed astatine an announcement arena successful Tokyo that artificial wide intelligence, aliases AGI will travel “much earlier” than his erstwhile two- to three-year prediction, The Wall Street Journal reports. That could beryllium helped, of course, by changes successful the meaning of AGI, arsenic explained precocious by his caller partner, Sam Altman.
In the release, SoftBank highlights really AI agents “will automate mundane tasks” for knowledge work. SoftBank shared immoderate vague examples of really it will usage Cristal Intelligence astatine Arm and SoftBank Corp., which it owns: Arm, which designs galore of the chips and servers utilized by AI companies, says it will usage the tech to “drive invention and boost productivity crossed the company,” while SoftBank Corp. plans to “automate complete 100 cardinal workflows” to “boost ratio and alteration the creation of caller business opportunities wrong its ecosystem.”
Son announced Cristal Intelligence astatine an arena successful Tokyo wherever he held a crystal ball.
The SoftBank and OpenAI associated venture, called “SB OpenAI Japan,” will beryllium owned 50-50 betwixt the 2 companies. The associated task will “market Cristal intelligence exclusively to awesome companies successful Japan,” per the property release.