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SoftBank Chief Masayoshi Son and OpenAI Chief Sam Altman
appeared at an event in Tokyo, talking up their collaboration
and inviting Japanese companies to join.
Son, holding a shiny blue crystal ball as a symbolic prop, said
its AI service Cristal could be used by companies for planning,
marketing, emails and figuring out old source codes.
Cristal will first roll out in Son’s own SoftBank Group
companies, which include Arm, a semiconductor and software
company, and PayPay, an electronic payment service. SoftBank
said it plans to spend $3 billion a year to integrate Cristal
across its companies.
“This will be super-intelligence for the company. I’m so
excited,” Son told reporters and other participants at the
Transforming Business through AI event.
Altman talked about the just announced “deep research,” which
allows ChatGPT to carry out more complicated tasks, including
preparing reports by browsing the web and finding thousands of
sources far more quickly than a human worker.
Deep research will be available in Japan in the Japanese
language, he said.
“This partnership with SoftBank will accelerate our vision for
bringing transformative AI to some of the world’s most
influential companies, starting with Japan,” said Altman.
SoftBank and OpenAI, along with Oracle, are part of the Stargate
project supported by President Donald Trump, investing up to
$500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the
United States.
Son said Stargate will expand into Japan, as well as other
nations.
The technology sector has been shaken by the recent announcement
from Chinese newcomer DeepSeek that it has come up with very
smart but low-cost AI.
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