2024-04-18 16:44:52
DECRYPTION – OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon are investing billions in the archipelago, whose need for automation will continue to increase with the aging population.
Japan, a center of artificial intelligence? On Thursday, the US IT services giant Oracle announced that it is investing $8 billion in Japan to expand its offering of cloud and artificial intelligence services. Sunday, OpenAI, the father of ChatGPT, chose Tokyo to open its first office in Asia. Two months earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of a Meta group behind the LlaMA language model (LLM), had made a highly publicized pilgrimage to the archipelago.
At the same time, several large technology groups are announcing astronomical investments in Japanese IT infrastructure to be able to deploy services powered by generative AI. Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of the distribution giant, will spend 2.26 trillion yen (13.7 billion euros) on its network in Japan. Microsoft announced an investment of 440 billion yen (2.7 billion euros) in its data centers. At the same time, the Japanese government subsidizes, with…
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