Seven Japanese telecoms and technology companies—KDDI, NTT, Rakuten Mobile, NEC, 1Finity, Oki Electric Industry, and Sumitomo Electric Industries—secured approval from the ITU-T for the Y.3335 standar…
Google celebrated one billion downloads of its Gemma open-weight models, a strategy aimed at defending its enterprise market share against Meta's Llama, particularly in Japan where corporate data cons…
OpenAI has halted reinforcement learning for its next-generation Astra model to strengthen safety measures, marking a shift from policy debates to engineering constraints in AI development. The pause,…
Amazon Web Services' managing director of Asia-Pacific, Japan and China, Jaime Valles, is relocating to Tokyo as the company bets on Japan's AI adoption potential. Japan's government warns that failur…
The Biden administration's new 'Pax Silica' policy forces East Asian allies to choose between American and Chinese AI ecosystems, threatening Japanese conglomerates like SoftBank and NEC that rely on …
NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu have rushed to secure partnerships with Anthropic in early 2026, completing deals in as little as three weeks to access the Claude Mythos Preview model, in a coordinated defe…
Meta Platforms Inc. released two open-weight AI models, Muse Glimmer and Muse Spark 1.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, ending a pause that began after Llama 4 in early 2025 and aiming to reclaim devel…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans an $8.6 billion Shanghai IPO, holding a 7.7% share of the global DRAM market despite lacking advanced EUV tools, demonstrating that China has bypassed U.S. ex…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has allocated ¥1.23 trillion for AI and semiconductor support in fiscal 2026, including ¥387.3 billion for domestic foundation models and physical AI, a…
Noetra CEO Hironobu Tamba called his robot AI startup a 'last chance' for Japan to matter in the coming wave of artificial intelligence, as the Tokyo-based company leads a state-backed programme with …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang concluded a two-day visit to Tokyo on July 16, securing deals to build a national AI factory with Japan's Noetra consortium and partnerships with top robotics firms including F…
Japan's newly created Noetra Corp. will deploy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs to build a national AI infrastructure for robotics and physical AI, backed by an initial government subsidy…
Japan announced on July 16 the construction of the world's first national AI factory, built by a consortium of SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and NEC under Noetra Corp., powered by 27,500 Nvidia Rubin GPUs an…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Tokyo to announce a partnership with Noetra Corp, a consortium of SoftBank, NEC, Sony, and Honda, to build a 27,500-GPU supercomputer serving as Japan's national AI hub…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang handed out red bean buns to a crowd in Tokyo after dining at a local izakaya, capping a business trip that included a partnership with Noetra Corp to build a 27,500-GPU AI fact…
Japan plans to buy 27,500 next-generation Nvidia Rubin chips to build a foundational AI model for robots, overseen by newly established Noetra with ¥387.3 billion ($2.4 billion) in government funding …
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 ¥…
Japan plans to buy 27,500 next-generation Rubin chips from Nvidia Corp. to build a homegrown foundational AI model for robots, overseen by newly established Noetra Corp. with ¥387.3 billion ($2.4 bill…
NVIDIA announced that Japan's physical AI leaders, including AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation and Yaskawa Electric, intend…
Rapidus, a Japanese semiconductor startup backed by eight major firms including Toyota and Sony, is pursuing 2-nanometer logic production with a pilot line operating in Chitose since April 2025 and ma…