SoftBank isn’t simply a part of the group investing $500 billion into Challenge 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 should revolutionize enterprise with AI brokers through a new AI system called “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 Street Journal reports. That might be helped, in fact, by adjustments within the definition of AGI, as explained recently by his new partner, Sam Altman.
Within the launch, SoftBank highlights how AI brokers “will automate on a regular basis duties” for information work. SoftBank shared some imprecise 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 should use the tech to “drive innovation and enhance productiveness throughout the corporate,” whereas SoftBank Corp. plans to “automate over 100 million workflows” to “enhance 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 solely to main corporations in Japan,” per the press launch.