Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) launched the FRONTia Project, a state-backed physical AI initiative led by Noetra and AIST, securing direct access to Nvidia's Blackwell architec…
Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, with Nvidia supplying 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs, as part of the FRONTia Project led by consortium Noetra Corp and backed by METI's up to ¥…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led 'Frontier AI Standardization Body' modeled after FINRA, arguing that AGI is only a few years away and comparing its impact to ten times the Industr…
Japan has confirmed an innovation-first, light-touch approach to AI regulation with the AI Promotion Act, passed in May 2025, which sets national principles and creates a Prime-Minister-chaired AI Str…
Micron Technology is investing 1.5 trillion yen ($10 billion) to expand its Hiroshima plant, with a 536 billion yen subsidy from Japan's METI, to secure the supply chain for high-bandwidth memory used…
Japan launched Noetra, a ¥380 billion AI company backed by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda, and METI, to secure national leadership in physical AI and robotics. The coalition aims to reduce reliance on for…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has committed up to 1 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) over five years to back Noetra, a physical AI consortium led by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda,…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced JPY387.3 billion in funding for a five-year project to develop a domestic multimodal foundation model for physical AI controlling robots, led …
DubGuild raised ¥2.1 billion in seed funding led by JAFCO to develop a text-free, voice-focused AI model, signaling Japan's strategic push to build sovereign AI capabilities in niche areas. The invest…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry proposed on June 5 a draft policy to replace 11 to 14 aging nuclear reactors by the 2050s, marking the first explicit numerical targets for reactor rebu…