today,SoftBank Group announced a partnership with OpenAI to jointly develop and sell advanced enterprise artificial intelligence called "Cristalintelligence."It is reported that SoftBank will spend US$3 billion per year to deploy OpenAI solutions among its group companies.
also,SoftBank and OpenAI also announced the establishment of a new joint venture called "SBOpenAIJapan", which will specialize in promoting OpenAI's enterprise technology to large Japanese companies, with each party holding a 50% stake.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he believes general artificial intelligence (AGI) will become a reality in less than 10 years and believes "AGI can be implemented in large enterprise businesses first."
To achieve this, he added, "it would take quite a lot of capital" which "is only available to large companies at the moment".
Masayoshi Son believes that the "Stargate" project is no longer just an activity of a private enterprise, but has been elevated to a very important national strategic project. We believe this project will have a significant impact on humanity in the future.
On January 22, 2025, Trump announced that SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle would jointly establish a new AI company, Stargate, with plans to invest US$500 billion in the next four years, and will immediately invest US$100 billion to build new AI infrastructure for OpenAI.
Stargate's initial equity investors include SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX, with SoftBank responsible for finance and OpenAI responsible for operations. Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners of the project.