OpenAI will provide its AI research, technology, and engineering support to the JV, and SoftBank Corp. its sales staff and engineers. Chip designer Arm, which is majority-owned by SoftBank, will offer its compute platform to help meet the computational demands of Cristal intelligence.

KEY TAKEAWAYS OpenAI has formed a joint venture with SoftBank Group to expand artificial intelligence services for businesses globally, starting with those in Japan.The two firms have set up a 50-50 joint venture called SP OpenAI Japan to deploy their Advanced Enterprise AI system,

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI are stepping up their partnership in artificial intelligence, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan