The developer of the widely used artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT said Monday it has opened an office in Tokyo, its first in Asia, as part of efforts to respond to growing popularity of the service in the country.
The launch came after Sam Altman, CEO of the U.S.-based OpenAI, met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo in April last year, in which the top executive expressed his intent to set up an office in the country.
Kishida's government has been accelerating its efforts to utilize technology to boost its economy while also trying to play a leading role in its rule-making.
Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has sparked a global generative AI boom with its ability to respond to questions in a human-like way based on massive data it has absorbed.
In Japan, many firms and municipalities have started to adopt ChatGPT to create documents, crunch data and improve business operations.
OpenAI, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 2015 by Altman and Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk, among others.
