Announcement of Change in Representative Director
February 20, 2026
SB Intuitions Corp.
SB Intuitions Corp. (“SB Intuitions”), a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp., hereby announces that its Board of Directors resolved on February 19, 2026, to appoint a new Representative Director as follows.
Appointment of New Representative Director (Effective February 20, 2026)
- Name
- Yoshihisa Ijiri
- New Title
- President and CEO
- Previous Title
- Board Director and CRO
Biography of the New President & CEO
- April 2002
- Joined OMRON Corporation
- July 2021
- LINE Corporation (currently LY Corporation)
- September 2023
- Appointed Director & CRO (Chief Research Officer) of SB Intuitions Corp.
Concurrent role as Head of Audio, Image, and Multimodal AI R&D at LY Corporation
Executive Management Team (As of February 20, 2026)
- President and CEO
- Yoshihisa Ijiri
- Board Director and CIO
- Daiki Orihara
- Board Director and CFO
- Natsuki Tsuda
※Hironobu Tamba resigned as President and CEO on February 19, 2026, to focus on his expanded role at SoftBank Corp.
Company Profile
SB Intuitions Corp.
As a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp., SB Intuitions focuses on research and development of generative AI and related services centered on the “Sarashina” series of Japanese-specialized large language models, aiming to achieve the best performance in Japanese among domestic LLMs. Leveraging one of Japan's largest computing infrastructures and stringent domestic data management, the company has released high-performance models such as “Sarashina2-70B” and the multimodal model “Sarashina 2-Vision,” accelerating the social implementation of generative AI through industry-academia collaboration.
https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/
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SB Intuitions Corp.
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E-mail: sbint-pr@sbintuitions.co.jp