SoftBank Group subsidiary to make generative AI for companies

Telecommunications arm to invest $138m in supercomputer-like equipment

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SoftBank is already developing a "large language model" for its AI. (Photo by Mayumi Tsumita)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group's domestic telecommunications arm, SoftBank, will develop its own generative artificial intelligence (AI), Nikkei has learned, as the business of providing AI to companies for specific applications starts to spread in Japan's private sector.

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