NEC develops Japanese-language generative AI

NEC has developed a generative artificial intelligence model with high Japanese-language proficiency amid the global dominance of models trained in English. This month, NEC will start AI services based on its own large language model (LLM), the key technology for automatically creating sentences and other items, for business use in Japan, according to an announcement Thursday. Its sales target is ¥50 billion over the next three years. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this FAQ.