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NEC develops lightweight LLM with world-class Japanese language proficiency and just 13 billion parameters

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

NEC aims to achieve sales of 50 billion yen (approximately $346 million USD) over the next three years from these generative AI-related businesses.

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  • NEC aims to achieve sales of 50 billion yen (approximately $346 million USD) over the next three years from these generative AI-related businesses.
  • NEC will also provide "NEC Generative AI Framework" software to facilitate the integration of LLM into customer operations.
  • The combination of NEC's proprietary LLM, NEC Generative AI Framework, and "NEC Generative AI Appliance Server," a hardware platform that enables on-premises use, will successfully provide for a secure LLM environment.
  • Demonstration experiments in a private environment by using NEC's proprietary LLM and building individual tuning models that utilize NEC LLM to learn data within the company.

Hitachi Establishes New "Generative AI Center" to Accelerate Value Creation and Improve Productivity in the Lumada business by promoting the use of Generative AI

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Monday, May 15, 2023

The Center will accelerate Hitachi's growth by maximizing the value provided to customers and improving productivity through the Lumada business.

Key Points: 
  • The Center will accelerate Hitachi's growth by maximizing the value provided to customers and improving productivity through the Lumada business.
  • Generative AI is artificial intelligence that can interpret a huge amount of data and generate various content such as images, texts, sounds, and program code.
  • It is expected to generate a huge paradigm shift in the future of technology and AI.
  • Together they will promote the use of Generative AI whilst also importantly managing the risks.

Takeda Announces Candidates for Board of Directors at Upcoming Shareholders Meeting

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Takeda ( TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK ) announced that its Board of Directors today decided that it will propose a new candidate for independent external director at the 147th Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders on June 28th, 2023.

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  • Takeda ( TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK ) announced that its Board of Directors today decided that it will propose a new candidate for independent external director at the 147th Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders on June 28th, 2023.
  • The new candidate, Miki Tsusaka, will join the board effective June 28th, if approved by the shareholders.
  • All other current board members who are not our Audit & Supervisory Committee members will be proposed for re-election.
  • “On behalf of Takeda’s Board of Directors, I would like to thank Masato Iwasaki for his invaluable contribution to Takeda.

AvePoint Japan Receives Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year Award for the First Time

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

By offering the most advanced SaaS and data management platform based on Microsoft Azure, AvePoint Japan has provided its customers with a safe collaboration environment on Microsoft 365.

Key Points: 
  • By offering the most advanced SaaS and data management platform based on Microsoft Azure, AvePoint Japan has provided its customers with a safe collaboration environment on Microsoft 365.
  • The company received this award in recognition of its activities, and it is endorsed by Microsoft Japan.
  • We are very happy to announce AvePoint Japan as the winner of the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2022 Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Award, said Masaki Honda, General Manager of Corporate Strategy Headquarters and General Manager of Partner Businesses, Microsoft Japan.
  • Through a strong partnership with AvePoint Japan, Microsoft Japan will continue to power customers digital transformation.