[dian2023]

I would imagine they have a small engineering team in Japan to help give the best feedback on localization of the model outputs.

I think the bigger picture is that Japan has promoted strong support for AI companies and OpenAI in particular, and so the company wants to positively reinforce that as a model for other countries to emulate.

[metahikari]

Also likely useful having field deployed Japanese sales engineers capable of breaking legacy Japanese business processes into agentic-like workflows.

[exhaze]

There will be no engineering presence in Japan for the time being