Footage of the shareholders’ meeting broadcast online on June 21 shows SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son giving a speech.
June 30, 2023 16:49 (Japan time)
Major mobile phone network provider SoftBank Corp. will develop its own generative artificial intelligence platform to serve corporate customers.
The company will invest about 20 billion yen in a supercomputer that is important for the information processing necessary for the generative AI platform. The machine uses microchips made by US-based Nvidia, known for making high-performance semiconductors used in many generative AI programs. The two companies are cooperating in several areas, including telecommunications. When the supercomputer is completed, it is expected to have the highest level of information processing capacity in Japan.
SoftBank is already deploying generative AI in its call centers to help with its customer support service. The company aims to make this platform a new revenue source by providing more accurate AI services to other companies.
“Given the progress and growth of AI in recent years, we believe that we should continue to actively work on it,” SoftBank President and CEO Junichi Miyagawa said at a shareholders’ meeting on June 20. He announced that he would accelerate the development of his own generative AI. technology. “
SoftBank’s parent company, the SoftBank Group, is also strengthening related AI businesses. “We want to lead the AI revolution as a whole group,” Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said at the June 21 general meeting of shareholders.
