according toJapanWirtschaftsprüfer, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will provide subsidies totaling 72.5 billion yen (currently about 3.4 billion yuan) to five Japanese companies.For building artificial intelligenceSupercomputer, aimed at reducing technological dependence on the United States.
The report notes that the development of AI is critical from an economic security point of view.High-performance computers are also critical to the development of AI and generative AI, which require massive amounts of data to learnThe Japanese computing infrastructure is very scarce. And at the same time, Japan's computing infrastructure is very scarce.
▲Fugaku, a supercomputer based on Arm architecture jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, activated in 2021
As a result, the Japanese government provided government subsidies of 50.1 billion, 10.2 billion, 1.9 billion, 2.5 billion and 7.7 billion yen to Sakura Internet, Japanese telecom giant KDDI, GMO Internet, Rutilea and Highreso, respectively.
Last July, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced the introduction of a new state-of-the-art supercomputer through its affiliated research institute to support the country's generation of AI IndustryThe development. The local media has stated thatForeign companies (compared to Japanese companies) are leading the way in the field of generative AI.
In addition, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology will develop a supercomputer as early as this year, with a computing power that is approximately 2.5 times that of existing machines. Under the supervision of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the institute will provide this supercomputer through cloud services to domestic companies developing generative AI.