Rakuten taps OpenAI for ‘state-of-the-art’ use cases

Japanese tech conglomerate Rakuten has boarded the generative AI hype train, establishing an all-encompassing partnership with OpenAI.
The two have signed an MoU under which they hope to come up with some new use cases for generative AI for what appears to be all of Rakuten’s businesses. That alone makes this a big deal, given its various operations span 70 countries and serve 1.7 billion users, 100 million of whom reside in its home market.
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