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Softbank has committed to spend $ 3 billion annually for itself and for its affiliate to use Openai, according to a joint announcement on Monday.
The two also announced a new joint venture, described by “SB Openai Japan”, which will market Enterprise Tech exclusively for major companies in Japan.
The Softbank deal and its subsidiaries will give access to Chatgpt Enterprise, and API from Openai, custom models and agents such as the operator, which it describes as “an agent who can go to the web to perform tasks for you”, such as planning for vacations and filling models. It will also include access to the latest OpenAi agent feature, as soon as it is launched: a tool called “Research” which Openai will be able to perform a multi -step analysis on the web. Softbank has described all Openai products that you will use as a set of “Cristal Intelligence” tools.
armThe British chips designer obtained from Softbank in 2016 will use the Openai tools “to increase productivity through the company,” according to the announcement.
In an event that was broadcast early on Monday morning, in which Softbank, SoftBank Group, Openai and ARM, such as the executive managers of the public, were participating in the companies that represent more than half of the market value in Japan, according to Softbank.
During the presentation, Bon said he believed that artificial general intelligence, or AGI – a mysterious standard that indicates artificial intelligence that equals or transcends human thought in a wide range of tasks – will be a reality in less than 10 years.
Sun said through a translator that he believes that “AGI can be achieved in large institutions companies first,” adding this to achieve this, “a large amount of money is necessary” and that these funds “are only available in large companies at the present time”
Softbank and Openai’s strategic partnership comes days after CNBC confirmed that Openai is holding talks to raise up to $ 40 billion in a funding tour led by Masayoshi Son’s Softbank with an assessment of up to 340 billion dollars.
Softbank will contribute between $ 15 billion and 25 billion dollars, according to two people familiar with the negotiations that they requested not to be called because the talks are continuing. If the tour is completed, Softbank will go beyond Microsoft as the best supporter in Openai.
The sources said that part of the financing can be used to adhere to Openai to Stargate, a joint venture between Softbank, Openai and Oracle presented by President Donald Trump last week. The plan calls for investing billions of dollars in the infrastructure of the American spontaneous organization.
During the presentation on Monday morning, Ibn said he was looking to work with Openai, Oracle and others in the Stargate project.
The last value of 157 billion dollars by private sector investors. In late 2022, the company launched Chatgpt Chatbot, and began a mutation in artificial intelligence. Openai closed the latest round of $ 6.6 billion in October, preparing to compete strongly with Elon Musk, as well as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Anthropic.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Deepseek start laboratory has become a virus in the United States, where he presented a new competition to Openai. Deepseek saw that its application rises to the highest classifications of the Apple App Store this week, and the US markets withdrew reports that its strong model has been trained on a small part of the cost of American competitors.
At an event in Washington, DC on Thursday, hosted by Openai, the CEO of Deepseek said that Deepseek is “clearly a great model.”
“This is a reminder of the level of competition and the need for a democratic victory,” he said. He also indicates “the level of interest in thinking and the level of interest in the open source.”
