Japan’s aspirations to develop its AI landscape have gotten an unexpected boost following the introduction by Tokyo-headquartered AI startup Preferred Networks (PFN) of a new series of large language models (LLMs) at almost half the price tag of similar products offered by top global players in AI. This development indicates the increasing resolve of the country to become an effective competitor in the field of enterprise AI amid one of the largest challenges faced in the domain\u2014the high cost of deployment.<\/p>\n
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The recent release by Preferred Networks shows Japan’s bigger strategy towards creating its own AI solutions that would not only help decrease its dependency on other platforms but also serve the purpose of implementing a digital transformation in the country. The company has proven itself in several areas, including manufacturing, automotive technology, medicine, and industrial AI. Thus, moving on to foundation models is quite natural.<\/p>\n
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The pricing model could turn out to be the company’s greatest competitive advantage.<\/p>\n
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For Japan’s firms, especially SMBs, less expensive AI will eliminate one of the main obstacles. Companies which perceived enterprise AI as too expensive could start considering using the technology.<\/p>\n
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As companies are becoming increasingly interested in affordable AI, Japan’s rapidly developing ecosystem of AI innovators might be an important factor in future enterprise AI adoption.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Japan’s aspirations to develop its AI landscape have gotten an unexpected boost following the introduction by Tokyo-headquartered AI startup Preferred Networks (PFN) of a new series of large language models (LLMs) at almost half the price tag of similar products offered by top global players in AI. This development indicates the increasing resolve of the country to become an effective competitor in the field of enterprise AI amid one of the largest challenges faced in the domain\u2014the high cost of deployment. The move comes at a time when companies around the world have been adopting AI technology at a much faster pace than before, but they still suffer from increasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,8098,85],"tags":[4189,13745,8163,773,534],"ppma_author":[572],"class_list":["post-34791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","category-news-articles","category-tech","tag-ai-ecosystem","tag-ai-environment","tag-japan-tech","tag-openai","tag-preferred-networks"],"yoast_head":"\n