Honda to open artificial intelligence center in Tokyo rather than Silicon Valley - Tech Wire Asia

JAPANESE carmaker Honda Motor Co. has chosen to headquarter its artificial intelligence (AI) research hub in Tokyo, saying its own home ground will enable closer interactions between scientists and researchers compared to Silicon Valley. According to Bloomberg, the research and development (R&D) center will launch in 2017 and will consolidate all the company's current AI teams from Silicon Valley, Europe, and Japan in Tokyo. Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, president of Honda's research arm, said in an interview that the carmakers chose Tokyo due to saturation in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is home to thousands of tech companies and startups. Honda chooses Tokyo over Silicon Valley for AI research centre – THE BUSINESS TIMES https://t.co/r25wCfNHKy Matsumoto was quoted saying: "We won't make much difference if we did the same things as everyone else in Silicon Valley. And not everyone has succeeded there."