Japan Drives AI Leadership with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse Expansion
NVIDIA NeMo, NIM microservices, and Isaac are being used by leading enterprises and universities throughout Japan to enhance native AI development.
Japanese technology leaders and universities are moving towards AI sovereignty by adopting NVIDIA’s latest AI solutions which range from NVIDIA AI Enterprise to the robust Omniverse. The goals of the initiative involve making and establishing Japan as an international leader in AI innovation by developing more suitable AI systems for the Japanese context.
Leading Japanese technology companies including Fujitsu, NEC, and NTT Group companies are using NVIDIA AI solutions to create work-optimized models in sensitive sectors including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. These include; NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end solution for the construction of AI agents, and NeMo for NVIDIA language model tuning.
Fujitsu’s Takane model, tailored for high-security applications, prioritizes accuracy with sensitive Japanese data and has set new benchmarks in Japanese language processing. NEC’s Cotomi model, built with NeMo’s parallel processing, is already operational across healthcare, finance, and local government sectors, supporting efficient and culturally tuned AI applications.
Startups and Academia Drive New AI Frontiers
NVIDIA’s NeMo is enabling startups like Kotoba Technologies to innovate by introducing the Kotoba-Whisper model for better transcription in real-time applications, such as customer service and healthcare. The model just made its premiere at NVIDIA’s AI Summit Japan, demonstrating its capacity to preprocess data utilizing NeMo’s automatic voice recognition and perform live transcription.
Japanese academic institutions also play a vital role in advancing AI sovereignty. Nagoya University’s Ruri-Large, an embedding model built with NVIDIA’s Nemotron-4, achieves high accuracy in document retrieval. Meanwhile, the National Institute of Informatics is preparing to release the sovereign LLM.jp-3-13B-Instruct model, signaling Japan’s commitment to self-sufficient AI development.
Scaling AI with NVIDIA Omniverse: Bringing AI to the Physical World
Japan’s giants of industries are leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse for highly complex robotics and simulations apart from language processing. Yaskawa Manufacturing Co., a company with initial involvement in industrial robotics entailing adaptive robotic technology in agriculture, logistics, and a host of other sectors can develop its technologies using Isaac libraries from NVIDIA. These are embodied through NVIDIA FoundationPose for accurate object tracking and through NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator for manufacturing robot arms.
For instance, to combine AI development with the use of digital twins as one of the forms of practical application in Japan, auto manufacturers, including Toyota, are already considering the use of Omniverse for the simulation of robotic operations within production lines.
Expanding Access with Industry Support
Japan’s AI journey is further propelled by global tech providers. Accenture is deploying AI agent solutions via NVIDIA NIM microservices, customized for Japan’s unique requirements, while Dell Technologies supports Japanese enterprises with the Dell AI Factory. HPE’s Private Cloud AI platform also offers NVIDIA Enterprise AI in a secure environment, prioritizing data sovereignty while fostering AI advancement.
This nationwide collaboration among industry, startups, and academia underscores Japan’s focused commitment to AI sovereignty, leveraging NVIDIA’s comprehensive suite—from NeMo to Omniverse—to drive domestic AI capabilities that meet Japan’s specific cultural and economic needs.
Japan’s unified effort with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge tools marks a significant step toward becoming a global AI leader, creating systems capable of transforming industries and cementing the nation’s position in the global AI landscape.
