An AI-Driven Societal Inflection Point: Technology, Organizations, and Human Responsibility
- Reasoning capabilities soar, AI agents take center stage
- AI deployment in finance and organizational transformation
- Energy constraints and the role of humans
SMBC Group
drives social value
through
digital innovation
Digital innovation is at the heart of SMBC Group’s business strategies. From enhancing customer convenience, improving our productivity and upgrading infrastructure, to creating new business opportunities, we innovate solutions that answer to the evolving needs of the people around us.
Through active engagement with partners and the establishment of our innovation centers across the world, we aim to employ digital technology in meaningful ways to make sustainability a reality.
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Inside SMBC’s AI CEO and Beyond: Recreating the Group CEO—Wit and All
- Capturing the CEO’s essence in an AI tool
- Design and unglamorous maintenance underpin ongoing use
- Beyond operational efficiency: How to approach AI going forward
How SMBC-GAI Learned to Cross-Search 1.3 Million Internal Documents: Behind the Scenes of Japan’s Largest Class RAG Implementation
- Why we wanted an organization-wide AI
- Large-scale RAG development was “learning on the run”
- In-house development addresses the specialized nature of banking operations
- Powering Japan’s Largest RAG Implementation with 2,000 Virtual Machines
- SMBC-GAI’s growing popularity and the road ahead
Supermarket chain Lopia leaps from cash-only to cashless payments via its own payment system
- First step away from cash-only to cashless payments while minimizing store burden
- Bank Pay’s multi-bank reach enables a one-stop approach—regional banks included
- Close collaboration feeds five years of planning into a three-month rollout
- App design carefully balances ease of use and security
- Cashless payments and data utilization open the way for a new customer experience
Development Revolution Powered by Silicon Valley Technology: Behind the Scenes of Replit’s Adoption
- Starting Point: Voices from the team Seeking Faster Development
- An Intuitive, Secure, and Flexible Development Experience
- Impact After Implementation and Future Outlook
- Finally—The Value of Startup Collaboration
Digital subsidiary advisory board makes full use of outside knowhow to accelerate growth of inhouse startups
- Advisory board brings in external knowhow to break the growth barrier
- Success hinges on the CEO’s commitment and capital strategy
- Building a big company startup success model to support the ambition to change society