Canadian AI startup Cohere and Japanese IT giant Fujitsu recently announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a large-scale Japanese language model (LLM) named "Takane". This collaboration aims to provide powerful Japanese language model solutions for enterprises, enhancing the user experience for both customers and employees.Image source: Generated by AI, provided by Midjourney According to the statement, Fujitsu has made a "significant investment" in this partnership. Cohere will leve

Fujitsu plans to expedite the sale of its $730 million stake in the air conditioning business to support its $5 billion expansion plan for AI services. The company is in negotiations with several potential buyers, including Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Fujitsu aims to become a tech giant in the digital age, offering AI services to help manufacturers improve efficiency, reduce emissions, and calculate optimal solutions in production and logistics. In addition to the air conditioning business, Fujitsu also plans to sell its battery manufacturing subsidiary and chip packaging subsidiary.

Fujitsu is developing the next-generation AI, HPC, and data center processor Monaka, which features 150 Armv9 cores. Monaka is expected to utilize 2nm technology and be released in 2027. It is equipped with the SVE2 instruction set, supporting DDR5 memory and PCIe 6.0 interfaces. Monaka employs a 3D chip design for scalability through its separated architecture. Positioned as an AI and data center processor, enhancing energy efficiency is one of its key features.

Fujitsu has announced the launch of two new AI trust technologies aimed at enhancing the reliability of conversational AI models, including technologies for detecting hallucinations and adversarial attacks. These technologies will be integrated into Fujitsu's AI platform 'Kozuchi', designed to provide tools for businesses and individual users to assess the reliability of conversational AI responses, thereby enhancing AI security. The first technology aims to detect hallucinations in conversational AI responses with high precision, addressing potential misinformation issues in those replies. The second technology is used to detect conversational...