Nvidia to support development of AI based on Japanese language data

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia said Monday that it will support the development of generative artificial intelligence based on Japanese language data. Nvidia will expand its AI development support service for enterprises to cover large language models trained on Japanese data by the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Rakuten Group. The move is seen helping Japanese efforts to protect critical infrastructure and strengthen industrial competitiveness without relying on other countries for data or human resources in order to enhance national economic security. In March, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Japan should develop its own generative AI. "There's no reason to allow some other third party to harvest that data (of Japan), create an AI and then import it back to Japan," he told reporters. Nvidia's service provides all tools required to develop generative AI apps.