SoftBank isn’t simply a part of the group investing $500 billion into Undertaking Stargate to construct American AI infrastructure capability for OpenAI. It’s additionally making a Japanese three way partnership with OpenAI, will spend $3 billion deploying OpenAI tech throughout SoftBank corporations, and claims it’ll revolutionize enterprise with AI brokers by way of a brand new AI system referred to as “Cristal intelligence.”
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who additionally invested billions in WeWork, claimed at an announcement occasion in Tokyo that synthetic common intelligence, or AGI will come “a lot earlier” than his earlier two- to three-year prediction, The Wall Avenue Journal experiences. That could possibly be helped, after all, by modifications within the definition of AGI, as defined just lately by his new associate, Sam Altman.
Within the launch, SoftBank highlights how AI brokers “will automate on a regular basis duties” for data work. SoftBank shared some obscure examples of the way it will use Cristal Intelligence at Arm and SoftBank Corp., which it owns: Arm, which designs lots of the chips and servers utilized by AI corporations, says it’ll use the tech to “drive innovation and increase productiveness throughout the corporate,” whereas SoftBank Corp. plans to “automate over 100 million workflows” to “increase effectivity and allow the creation of recent enterprise alternatives inside its ecosystem.”
Son introduced Cristal Intelligence at an occasion in Tokyo the place he held a crystal ball.
The SoftBank and OpenAI three way partnership, referred to as “SB OpenAI Japan,” might be owned 50-50 between the 2 corporations. The three way partnership will “market Cristal intelligence completely to main corporations in Japan,” per the press launch.
