On April 17th, OpenAI set up its first branch studio in Asia, located in Tokyo, Japan, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI also launched a GPT-4 specifically for Japanese fine-tuning, and in the future, OpenAI will also open branches in many countries and languages around the world to create different fine-tuned versions of GPT large models!
In April last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to visit Tokyo, when Altman said in an interview with Japanese media that OpenAI will open a new branch office in Japan, and he believes that artificial intelligence is the next technology flashpoint, and Japan is an important base in OpenAI's global plan!
Just one year later, OpenAI officially announced its first Asian branch base, set in Tokyo, Japan, and launched a fine-tuned version of GPT-4 custom model, Toyota Motor and other companies have obtained the right to use it, OpenAI is actively working with major enterprises to apply advanced AI technology to practical business scenarios to improve efficiency and innovation capabilities.
By working together, companies can leverage the power of GPT-4 and combine the characteristics of their own business to develop smarter solutions to stay ahead of the competition in a competitive market. In a video message released by Sam Altman, he mentioned that the purpose of setting up the Japanese studio is mainly to establish long-term partnerships with Japanese industrial, scientific and technological and academic research institutions.
Chief Operating Officer (COO) Brad Lightcarp pointed out at a press conference in Tokyo that Japan is one of the main markets for ChatGPT, with more than 2 million users. OpenAI's headquarters is currently located in San Francisco, USA, and was jointly established by Altman and Elon Musk, among others, and Tokyo has become OpenAI's third overseas base after the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In June last year, OpenAI set up the world's first branch office in London, England, in the global market, Google is OpenAI's main competitor, its artificial intelligence strategic research laboratory DeepMind, also headquartered in London, DeepMind has now merged with Google Brain.
In September last year, OpenAI opened its second branch office in Dublin, Ireland, in addition to its headquarters, and Altman believes that the local talent pool in Ireland is already very familiar with the culture of companies such as Meta and Google, and that Ireland is seen as a less regulated place to enter the European market from a regulatory and business development perspective.
Tokyo has become OpenAI's third overseas branch office in the United States, although Japan is not as numerous as China and the United States in the number of AI large model companies, but it still has strong competitiveness in specific chip manufacturing and other fields, before Nvidia Lao Huang has reached cooperation with Japanese companies such as SoftBank to develop generative artificial intelligence, and Japan is also eager to rebuild semiconductor factories to catch up with the development of AI technology.