Japan's Tech Titans Just Teamed Up to Build a Trillion-Parameter AI—And It's Not Here to Chat [Yahoo! Finance]
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG)
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The move is a direct bet on what the community refers to as “Physical AI”: the idea that the next frontier isn't language models that write your emails, but AI systems that control a robot arm, drive a car, or run a factory floor. Japan, with its deep industrial base and decades of robotics heritage, thinks it has a natural edge that Silicon Valley and Beijing can't easily replicate. Based on reports, SoftBank and NEC will lead the actual AI development. Honda will deploy the results in autonomous driving. Sony brings robotics and gaming hardware to the table. Preferred Networks, a respected Tokyo-based AI developer, is also involved. The company, which roughly translates in English to " Japan AI Foundation Model Development," plans to hire around 100 AI engineers, with a SoftBank executive named as president. Banks and steelmakers showed up too. Nippon Steel, Kobe Steel, MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, and Mizuho Bank are all listed as investors, so this is much bigger than
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