Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
As U.S. giants like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic race to develop the large language models that underpin their AI products, startups such as Sakana AI, Mistral AI, DeepSeek, and AI21 Labs are carving ...
Japanese artificial intelligence startup Sakana AI Co. Ltd. revealed early today that it has raised 20 billion yen ($135 million) in new funding on a 400 billion yen ($2.635 billion) valuation to ...
Like many other A.I. startups, Sakana AI is pursuing technology that can reason, self-improve and aid scientific research. But where the Tokyo-based venture stands apart from most of the world’s model ...
Ubitus Partners with Maizuru City, Kyoto to Launch AI Data Center Project, Advancing the Deployment of a Top-Tier AI GPU Center in Japan Ubitus K.K. (Headquarters: Shinjuku, Tokyo; Representative ...
Unsurprisingly, it was also in Japan that neocognitron, the architectural ancestor of the neural networks that power systems like ChatGPT, was developed by computer scientist Kunihiko Fukushima. Yet, ...
Hundreds of billions of dollars are riding on the assumption that artificial intelligence will be reliable enough for ...
Amid ongoing efforts by the governments of Korea and Japan to improve bilateral relations, private startups have also begun cooperating in 'artificial intelligence (AI) technology.' The Generative AI ...