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Softbank He committed himself to spend three billion dollars a year for himself and his branches to use Openai’s Tech, according to a joint announcement on Monday.
The two also announced a new joint investment, charged as a “SB Openii Japan”, which will market the OpenIA Tech market exclusively to the main companies in Japan.
The S Operatorwhich he describes as “an agent who can go to the web to do tasks for you”, such as planning rest and filling the patterns. It will also include an approach to the latest OPENAI feature, after starting: a tool called “Deep Residence” for which Openi says he will be able to spend more steps of analysis on the web. Softbank has been marked by all the openija products that will be used as a “Cristal Intelligence” tool package.
HandBritish chip designer who bought SoftBank in 2016 will also use Openi Tools for “Increasing Productivity throughout the company,” the announcement said.
At the vivid event early Monday morning, who together held SoftBank, S
During the presentation, the son said that he believed that artificial general intelligence, or agi – an unclear reference value that refers to AI that is equal to or exceeds the human intellect in a wide range of tasks – to be reality in less than 10 years.
The son said through a translator that he believed that “AGI can be achieved first in large business companies,” adding that this is “needed is a huge amount of money” and that such funds are “available only in large companies at the moment.”
News about strategic partnership SoftBank and Openi comes for days after CNBC confirmed that Openi is in an interview with raising up to $ 40 billion In the financing circle led by SoftBank Masayoshi Son, with an estimated up to $ 340 billion.
Softbank would contribute between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, to introduce two people to negotiations who asked not to be appointed because conversations were ongoing. If the round ended, softbank would surpass Microsoft As an Openii -ov upper support.
Part of financing can be used for Openi -is a dedication to Stargate, a joint investment between SoftBank, Openi -ai Prophet He introduced it President Donald Trump Last week, sources said. The plan requires a billion dollar in the American AI infrastructure.
During the presentation on Monday morning, the son said that he was looking forward to working with Openi, Oracle and others on Stargate project.
Openai last estimated private investors at $ 157 billion. At the end of 2022, the company launched its Chatgpt Chatbot, starting a flourishing in the generative AI. Open Closed the latest round of $ 6.6 billion in OctoberPreparing aggressively competing Elon Musk Xai, as well as Microsoft, Google,, Amazon and anthrop.
Meanwhile, the Chinese startup laboratory Deepsek became a viral in the US, presenting the fresh competition of Openii. Deepseek saw his app soar to the top Apple cider APP Store Rankings and sorted US markets this week at reports that his powerful model was dressed in a fraction of US competitors.
At the event in Washington, DC on Thursday, hosted by Openai, executive director Sam Altman said Deepsek is “obviously a great model”.
“This is a reminder of the level of competition and the need to win the democratic al,” he said. He said this also indicates “the level of interest in reasoning, the level of interest in an open source.”
