The Land of the Rising AI 🌞🇯🇵
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This week, OpenAI opened its first office in Tokyo, unveiling a Japanese-optimised GPT-4 model to boost creativity and productivity. It also partnered with leading businesses and local governments to transform the industry and public services.
“I’m glad to see more AI in Japan,” said Llion Jones, the co-founder of Tokyo-based Sakana AI, and one of the authors of Google’s 2017 research paper ‘Attention Is All You Need’.
Big Papa also invests—
Not sure if this is a coincidence, but OpenAI’s major investor and partner Microsoft also recently invested about $2.9 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Japan to boost skills, research, and cybersecurity.
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