Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang said that his company will help Japan develop a basic model for domestic artificial intelligence (AI) by providing AI chips as part of strengthening cooperation with the country's technology industry.
The US chip giant will partner with Japanese government-backed Noetra Corp. to build an AI factory that will provide the computing foundation for developing multimodal base models for physical AI, the technology that allows robots and other devices to operate autonomously, Kyodo reported Thursday.
Noetra, founded in January by a consortium of 44 Japanese companies, including Sony Group Corp., SoftBank Corp., NEC Corp., and Honda Motor Co., began full operations on Thursday with government funding of 1 trillion yen, or about Rp110 trillion, over five years.
