Our Business

Our Business Fields are Expanding

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

Make Something New

01.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.

Make it Viral

02.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.

Make it Happen

03.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).

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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.

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