SANTA CLARA — NVIDIA has revealed that a number of leading cloud providers in Japan—SoftBank Corp., GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI, Rutilea, and SAKURA Internet—are adopting its accelerated computing, networking, and software platforms to drive transformation in key sectors such as robotics, automotive, healthcare, and telecom. This collaboration is backed by the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), which is supporting critical compute resources across the nation to power AI initiatives.
During the NVIDIA AI Summit Japan, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, highlighted the potential of AI to revolutionize Japan’s industries, stating that the country’s companies stand to gain immensely from AI’s ability to enhance productivity and automate processes. “Japan is embracing the industrial revolution powered by AI,” Huang remarked. “The collaboration between NVIDIA and Japan’s cloud providers is laying the foundation for AI factories that will transform the country’s automotive, robotics, telecommunications, and healthcare industries.”
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SoftBank Corp. is deploying NVIDIA Blackwell platforms to construct Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputers, including the world’s first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ powered by NVIDIA DGX B200 systems. These systems will support various industries, including SoftBank’s subsidiary, SB Intuitions, which is focused on developing Japanese-specific large language models (LLMs) using NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
GMO Internet Group is launching the GMO GPU Cloud, Japan’s first local cloud offering built with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet, NVIDIA BlueField™-3 DPUs, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. This service will be available this month and will provide cloud-based AI computing to businesses throughout Japan.
Highreso is expanding AI capabilities in Japan with the Highreso Kagawa AI data center, which is powered by NVIDIA’s H200 Tensor Core GPUs. This data center will support the GPUSOROBAN AI Supercomputer Cloud service and will be operational next month, with plans for a second center next summer. Highreso aims to provide Japanese businesses and researchers with access to 1,600 NVIDIA GPUs for AI development in manufacturing, research, and education.
KDDI is leveraging NVIDIA HGX™ systems to build AI computing infrastructure aimed at supporting the development of generative AI and specialized LLMs in collaboration with its ELYZA business group. KDDI’s infrastructure will accelerate AI model training, inference, and simulation workloads in fields like autonomous vehicles, robotics, and sensor data processing.
Rutilea, a Kyoto-based startup and NVIDIA Inception member, is doubling its NVIDIA Hopper™ GPU availability at its AI cloud data center. The company plans to provide over 1,000 GPUs for developing LLMs in industries like animation, retail, and food services. Additionally, Rutilea’s subsidiary, AI Fukushima, opened a new data center in Okuma, Fukushima, to aid regional recovery following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, further contributing to local economic revitalization.
SAKURA Internet is expanding its Koukaryoku cloud services, adding 2,000 additional NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, and plans to install NVIDIA HGX B200 infrastructure with Blackwell GPUs at its Ishikari data center. By 2027, SAKURA’s data center will be fully powered by renewable energy. The company also plans to provide over 10,000 GPUs to bolster its high-performance AI computing services.
SAKURA’s clients include the National Institute of Informatics (NII), which is advancing research in large language models, including those for medical applications. Additionally, TIER IV, a Japanese driving software startup, is using NVIDIA-accelerated computing to develop intelligent vehicle software.
