Our Business
Expanding beyond traditional telecom into new business domains
Our Strength
Power of Creating New Standards
We have a proven track record of developing and delivering innovative services
01
Make Something New
Collaboration With Global Partners
Our parent company, SoftBank Group Corp. invests in unicorn companies worldwide. We are able to collaborate with such unicorn companies and develop cutting-edge technologies and business models.
02
Make it Viral
Dominant Customer Touchpoints
The Group possesses one of the largest user bases in Japan across a wide range of fields, including telecommunications, online shopping, social media, and payment and finances.
03
Make it Happen
Powerful Sales & Tech-Experts
SoftBank has a long history of trust and a proven track record, having received numerous award partner certifications from major cloud vendors.
Towards AI-Powered Society
Create Next-Gen Social Infrastructure
SoftBank aims to build a new “next-generation infrastructure” to boost AI's potential
01.AI Services
On top of the next-generation social infrastructure foundation, we aim to promote solutions to various social issues and improve people's lives by utilizing AI in various services across different domains such as healthcare, mobility, manufacturing, and logistics.
02.AI Data Foundation
We are working on developing large-scale language models for domestically produced generative AI specialized in Japanese, as well as advancing the development of ultra-distributed computing infrastructure.This technology, which will serve as the foundation for an AI-coexistent society, safely connects the vast amounts of data held by industry, academia, and government.
It responds to real-time needs by automatically optimizing processing in geographically distributed systems.
03.AI Infrastructure
With the recent rapid progress in AI utilization, there is a demand for the realization of an entirely new digital infrastructure that dramatically improves conventional processing and computational capabilities, enhancing the power of AI.
In preparation for the era of AI coexistence, we are promoting efforts to construct distributed AI data centers equipped with computational foundations and quantum computers, as well as the realization of AI-equipped communication networks (AI-RAN).
Our Business Innovations
We do more than provide connectivity
Leveraging our telecommunications expertise, we are diversifying into new business frontiers
Solutions
Solve Customer Issues Globally
We solve global customers' challenges through technology
R&D
SoftBank's Research Institute of Advanced Technology is a R&D organization established in April 2022.
It aims to shape the future of society by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as AI, 6G communications, autonomous driving systems, HAPS (High Altitude Platform Station), and quantum computing.
