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In what could be SoftBank’s newest trick to make the impious amounts of money disappear, the Japanese investment firm will pay $ 3 billion a year to force companies in their portfolio to experiment with AI agents.
SoftBank and OpenAi announced on Monday that they were forming a joint business to develop and market a new product called Cristal Intelligence, which will develop the latest OpenAi reasoning models to create AI agents that will complete tasks without human intervention.
SoftBank said in a Press release that plans to automate more than 100 million workflows among its companies, which could include the generation of financial reports, write documents and administer customer consultations.
“By automating and autonomenting all its work tasks and flows, SoftBank Corp. will transform its businesses and services, and create a new value,” said the company.
Operai has already launched a preview of his agent tool operator for his upper level subscribers, who pay $ 200 a month and now have the privilege of Do not click buttons To program your own haircuts.
The new crystal intelligence system will create similar agents, but will receive training in corporate and personalized clients data for their systems and needs, SoftBank said. At least initially, it will be sold exclusively for “the main companies in Japan.”
SoftBank, led by its president Masayoshi, built a strong reputation in the space of the technology company with early investments in companies such as Uber, Dordash and Alibaba. But in recent years, his bets have been remarkably less successful, particularly when it comes to transforming the nature of work. He Lost billions In Wework, for example, and threw $ 375 million into the now missing Zume, which promised to automate and interrupt the creation of pizzas.
The Crystal Intelligence Association deepens its financial participation in Openai. SoftBank is reportedly In conversations to invest $ 25 billion directly in the company and has already announced a collaboration called StargateAnother joint company that includes OpenAi that plans to spend $ 500 billion in the next four years to build AI infrastructure as data centers.
The great money bets of the firm occur in the midst of much advertising about the potential of AI agents, but also as advances by the Chinese Deepseek company have asked questions about whether the cheapest and most efficient developers will undermine Openai, what is Lose money in its most expensive subscription plan due to the cost of administering technology.
