TOKYO \u2014 U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations using Nvidia’s computer chips.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe AI industrial revolution has already begun. Building the infrastructure to power it is essential in Japan and around the world,\u201d Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said, hugging his Fujitsu counterpart Takahito Tokita on stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cJapan can lead the world in AI and robotics,\u201d Huang told reporters at a Tokyo hotel.<\/p>\n
The companies will work together on building what they called \u201can AI infrastructure,\u201d or the system on which the various futuristic AI uses will be based, including health care, manufacturing, the environment, next-generation computing and customer services. The hope is to establish that AI infrastructure for Japan by 2030.<\/p>\n
It initially will be tailored for the Japanese market, leveraging Fujitsu\u2019s decades-long experience here, but may later expand globally, and will utilize Nvidia\u2019s GPUs, or graphics processing units, which are essential for AI, according to both sides.<\/p>\n
The two executives did not outline specific projects or give a monetary figure for planned investments. But exploring a collaboration in AI for robots with Yaskawa Electric Corp., a Japanese machinery and robot maker, was noted as a possible example. AI will be constantly evolving and learning, they said.<\/p>\n
Fujitsu and Nvidia have been working together on AI, speeding up manufacturing with digital twins and robotics to tackle aging Japan\u2019s labor shortages.<\/p>\n
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A sign for a Nvidia building is shown in Santa Clara, Calif., May 31, 2023. Credit: AP\/Jeff Chiu<\/p>\n
Tokita said the companies were taking a \u201chumancentric\u201d approach aimed at keeping Japan competitive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough our collaboration with Nvidia, we aim to create new, unprecedented technologies and contribute to solving even more serious social issues,\u201d said Tokita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":274018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,51353,738,64,158,67,132,68,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-274017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ap-a-wire","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115309137353065503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}