Shares of AI solutions provider Ridge-i Inc. <5572> surged to their daily upper limit on Tuesday, locked at the ceiling with a massive backlog of unfilled buy orders. The buying frenzy was ignited by a major midday announcement from financial conglomerate SBI Holdings, Inc. <8473> regarding a strategic alliance with prominent U.S. artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. As part of the pact, SBI disclosed plans to establish a cross-group engineering framework anchored by Ridge-i?an equity-method affiliate of SBI?to spearhead the collaboration's development and operational execution, prompting aggressive investor accumulation.

Around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, SBI revealed it had entered into an agreement with Anthropic, the creator of the generative AI model "Claude," to accelerate group-wide AI transformation (AX) by deeply integrating Claude across its business segments. Under the partnership, SBI intends to upscale its entire group workforce into AI-proficient personnel, drawing heavily on Anthropic's direct technical support and cutting-edge architectures. Crucially, the companies will explore the joint development of specialized financial AI agents that synthesize the SBI Group's massive proprietary financial datasets with Anthropic's foundational models. To execute this technical deployment, SBI will place Ridge-i at the core of its implementation infrastructure, a move that Ridge-i cross-confirmed with its own timely disclosure statement shortly after SBI's release.

Source: MINKABU PRESS

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