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Ricoh and Sompo Japan begin joint development of multimodal LLM
Ricoh Company, Ltd. and Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. have begun joint development of a private multimodal large-scale language model suitable for Sompo Japan's insurance business. This joint development is being carried out as part of the "GENIAC (Generative AI Accelerator Challenge) " project, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) with the aim of strengthening the development capabilities of generative AI in Japan. LMM is an AI technology that can process multiple formats of data at once, including text, images, audio, and video. It is expected to be able to efficiently process data in a variety of formats, such as summarizing the content of screenshots of text information and appropriately answering questions using diagrams. At GENIAC, Ricoh…
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KDDI enhances retail store development product, providing generative AI to suggest potential locations
KDDI Corporation announced that it will add a function to the "Store Development Support Pack"…
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ITBusinessToday’s Japan Tech Roundup: Innovations Driving the Future
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Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, announced that it has deployed a new Point of Presence (PoP) in…
Kurabo and JR Central jointly develop system to measure track materials while the Tokaido Shinkansen is in motion
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