OpenAI is reportedly preparing to open an office in Tokyo this month. This will be his third international office to expand the ChatGPT maker’s global footprint.
The Japan hub will be OpenAI’s first in Asia, according to people familiar with the matter. bloombergIt follows offices in London and Dublin, which opened last year.
Before expanding internationally, OpenAI operated exclusively at its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, in the Mission District’s historic Pioneer Building, which it moved to in 2016 just a year after its founding. .
It’s been several years since ChatGPT, one of the most popular large-scale language models released to the public in November 2022, sparked a frenzy in artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT currently boasts more than 180 million users and is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of at least $100 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Interest among Japanese companies has recently peaked, Bloomberg reports, with major companies such as investment holding company SoftBank and Tokyo-based Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, the world’s fourth-largest telecommunications company. are competing to introduce AI software for Japanese speakers.
As a result, OpenAI plans to expand its own Japanese language service, according to Bloomberg. The company is working with governments to reduce risk and implement regulations ahead of future software releases.
Bloomberg reported that Altman also met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in April last year, during which the idea to establish the group’s Tokyo office was born.
Other details about OpenAI’s Tokyo office and upcoming Japanese language tools were not immediately available.
Representatives for OpenAI did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The AI giant’s first foray into international markets took place at the end of June, when it opened its first overseas office in London. This is an important milestone. OpenAI said at the time:“demonstrates our commitment to expand our reach, bring in diverse perspectives, and accelerate our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all humanity.” ”
OpenAI’s Dublin hub in Ireland opened just a few months later, in September 2023.
So far this year, the company has halted its global rollout and announced innovative new software called Sora that can generate high-quality videos in response to a few simple text queries.
The technology uses a “deep understanding of language” to create clips up to one minute long with “compelling characters” and “multiple shots within a single generated video.” the company said on its website Dedicated to Sora, who debuted in February.
OpenAI said in a blog post on its website Friday that it is also working on a tool that can replicate the human voice from just 15 seconds of recorded audio, but concerns that it could be made public Not published yet. In particular, he could be exploited during the 2024 election.
The software, called Voice Engine, was first developed in 2022 to integrate with ChatGPT’s text-to-speech capabilities, but its use cases have since expanded with the help of “a small group of trusted partners.” ing.
However, OpenAI has not yet released Voice Engine to the public. That’s because, according to the blog post, there are “significant risks that are particularly concerning during an election year.”
OpenAI says, “We are choosing to preview this technology at this time, but not broadly release it. This will strengthen society’s resilience to the challenges posed by more compelling generative models.” This is for the purpose of doing so.”
It wasn’t immediately clear when OpenAI would debut Voice Engine at scale, but it said it would be in the near future. “We encourage measures such as phasing out voice-based authentication as a security measure for accessing bank accounts and other sensitive information.”
