Consulting giants together with Accenture, Deloitte, EY Technique and Consulting Co., Ltd. (or EY Japan), FPT, Kyndryl and Tata Consultancy Providers Japan (TCS Japan) are working with NVIDIA to determine innovation facilities in Japan to speed up the nation’s objective of embracing enterprise AI and bodily AI throughout its industrial panorama.
The facilities will use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software program, native language fashions and NVIDIA NIM microservices to assist shoppers in Japan advance the event and deployment of AI brokers tailor-made to their industries’ respective wants, boosting productiveness with a digital workforce.
Utilizing the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, Japanese companies can develop digital twins and simulate complicated bodily AI methods, driving innovation in manufacturing, robotics and different sectors.
Like many countries, Japan is navigating complicated social and demographic challenges, which is resulting in a smaller workforce as older generations retire. Leaning into its manufacturing and robotics management, the nation is in search of alternatives to resolve these challenges utilizing AI.
The Japanese authorities in April printed a paper on its goals to develop into “the world’s most AI-friendly nation.” AI adoption is robust and rising, as IDC experiences that the Japanese AI methods market reached roughly $5.9 billion this yr, with a year-on-year development charge of 31.2%.1
The consulting giants’ initiatives and actions embody:
- Accenture has established the Accenture NVIDIA Enterprise Group and can present options and companies incorporating a Japanese massive language mannequin (LLM), which makes use of NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA NeMo, as a Japan-specific providing. As well as, Accenture will deploy agentic AI options primarily based on Accenture AI Refinery to all industries in Japan, accelerating whole enterprise reinvention for its shoppers. Sooner or later, Accenture plans to construct new companies utilizing NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse at Accenture Innovation Hub Tokyo.
- Deloitte is establishing its AI Expertise Heart in Tokyo, which can function an govt briefing heart to showcase generative AI options constructed on NVIDIA expertise. This facility builds on the Deloitte Japan NVIDIA Observe introduced in June and can permit shoppers to expertise firsthand how AI can revolutionize their operations. The middle can even provide NVIDIA AI and Omniverse Blueprints to assist enterprises in Japan undertake agentic AI successfully.
- EY Technique and Consulting Co., Ltd (EY Japan) is creating a large number of digital transformation (DX) options in Japan throughout numerous industries together with finance, retail, media and manufacturing. The brand new EY Japan DX choices will probably be constructed with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to serve the nation’s rising demand for digital twins, 3D purposes, multimodal AI and generative AI.
- FPT is launching FPT AI Manufacturing unit in Japan with NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software program to help the nation’s AI transformation through the use of enterprise information in a safe, sovereign surroundings. FPT is integrating the NVIDIA NeMo framework with FPT AI Studio for constructing, pretraining and fine-tuning generative AI fashions, together with FPT’s multi-language LLM, named Saola. As well as, to supply end-to-end AI integration companies, FPT plans to coach over 1,000 software program engineers and consultants domestically in Japan, and over 7,000 globally by 2026.
- IT infrastructure companies supplier Kyndryl has launched a devoted AI non-public cloud in Japan. Inbuilt collaboration with Dell Applied sciences utilizing the Dell AI Manufacturing unit with NVIDIA, this new AI non-public cloud will present a managed, safe and sovereign location for purchasers to develop, check and plan implementation of AI on the end-to-end NVIDIA AI platform, together with NVIDIA accelerated computing and networking, in addition to the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software program.
- TCS Japan will start providing its TCS world AI choices constructed on the complete NVIDIA AI stack within the automotive and manufacturing industries. These options will probably be hosted in its showcase facilities at TCS Japan’s Azabudai workplace in Tokyo.
Situated within the Tokyo and Kansai metropolitan areas, these new consulting facilities provide hands-on expertise with NVIDIA’s newest applied sciences and knowledgeable steerage — serving to speed up AI transformation, resolve complicated social challenges and help the nation’s financial development.
To be taught extra, watch the NVIDIA AI Summit Japan hearth chat with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
Editor’s word: IDC figures are sourced to IDC, 2024 Home AI System Market Forecast Introduced, April 2024. The IDC forecast quantity was transformed to USD by NVIDIA, whereas the CAGR (31.2%) was calculated primarily based on JPY.
