News Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n TOKYO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVIDIA today announced that leading Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with\u00a0NVIDIA Nemotron<\/u><\/a>\u2122 open models, data and libraries, accelerating the development of AI tailored to Japan\u2019s language, industries and workforce.<\/p>\n Open models<\/u><\/a> are the foundation of national AI ecosystems, giving organizations the ability to customize, deploy and govern AI they control.<\/p>\n In Japan, these capabilities are increasingly important as the country addresses an aging population and workforce transition, driving demand for AI tailored to local industries that helps strengthen the workforce, sustain productivity and accelerate innovation.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery nation and every company should own and control its intelligence infrastructure. Open models make that possible,\u201d said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. \u201cThey give countries, enterprises and researchers the freedom to inspect, improve, adapt, secure and deploy AI for their own needs. Together with Japan\u2019s AI leaders, we are advancing an open AI ecosystem that accelerates discovery, strengthens national capability and ensures every society can participate in \u2014 and benefit from \u2014 the AI revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n Building Specialized AI for Japan With NVIDIA Nemotron<\/strong> Institute of Science Tokyo developed its Swallow family of open foundation models using NVIDIA Nemotron datasets and the NVIDIA NeMo\u2122 software stack for continual pretraining and post-training. Swallow models enhance Japanese language and reasoning performance while preserving the underlying models\u2019 core English, math and coding capabilities. Enterprises are customizing and deploying Swallow for specialized use cases, including financial-document translation and asset-management report generation.<\/p>\n SB Intuitions Corp., SoftBank Corp.\u2019s generative AI research subsidiary, trained its Sarashina series of homegrown generative AI models using NVIDIA Nemotron, including the NVIDIA NeMo RL and Megatron-LM libraries. Sarashina3 mini has been selected by Japan\u2019s Digital Agency for use in specialized AI use cases. SoftBank Corp. has also developed and deployed a large telco model, using NVIDIA Nemotron, to enable autonomous telecom network operations.<\/p>\n Stockmark<\/u><\/a>\u2019s specialized Japanese-language document-understanding model, released today, is based on the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model. The company is also developing enterprise knowledge applications using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever\u2122 and the Nemotron-Personas-Japan<\/u><\/a> dataset, serving customers across Japan\u2019s manufacturing, energy and chemical industries through Japan\u2019s Generative AI Accelerator Challenge national project.<\/p>\n Transforming Japan\u2019s Industries With NVIDIA Nemotron<\/strong> AI and robotics startup avatarin is using NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA NeMo to develop Japanese-language speech and reasoning capabilities for enterprise AI agents. NVIDIA HGX<\/u><\/a>\u2122 B300 systems provide the private AI infrastructure that enables those agents to securely analyze customer conversations and access enterprise knowledge for more accurate responses, while NVIDIA Jetson<\/u><\/a>\u2122 powers edge AI capabilities, including digital avatar systems being deployed at airports and other locations across Japan.<\/p>\n ENEOS Holdings is using NVIDIA Nemotron open models with the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint<\/u><\/a> and NVIDIA ALCHEMI<\/u><\/a> NIM microservices to advance agentic AI workflows for energy and materials R&D. Researchers are using these technologies to integrate technical document search, vision and language understanding, and simulation-backed molecular screening, helping accelerate materials exploration for applications such as immersion-cooling fluids and advanced catalysts.<\/p>\n NTT DATA, an operating subsidiary of NTT, used NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas-Japan to augment training data for its proprietary tsuzumi 2 model, improving question-answering accuracy and enhancing responses to questions requiring additional knowledge. The company is also looking to deploy a scalable multi-agent framework harnessing NVIDIA Agent Toolkit<\/u><\/a>, including NVIDIA Nemotron, to route tasks to the best models and drive accurate, efficient and autonomous enterprise workflows.<\/p>\n Hitachi is developing physical AI technologies to address real-world operational challenges by using NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos\u2122 open models,<\/u><\/a> along with its proprietary information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) domain knowledge. As part of a multi-agent orchestration platform, these technologies are designed to connect and coordinate IT and OT operations, helping transform enterprise-scale business processes across complex workflows.<\/p>\n Sakana AI is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA Nemotron into its Fugu model-orchestration platform, expanding the range of AI models Fugu can intelligently orchestrate to dynamically select the best model for each task in agentic AI workflows. By routing each request to the model best suited for the job, Fugu helps developers balance accuracy, performance and cost across multiple open and proprietary AI models. Fugu demonstrates how thoughtful orchestration can unlock capabilities beyond what an individual model achieves on its own.\u00a0Early performance results<\/u><\/a> on complex, real-world coding tasks reinforce the promise of coordination as a path to more capable AI.<\/p>\n Open and Customizable, Deployable Anywhere<\/strong> Developers can use NVIDIA NeMo to customize, evaluate and optimize models for their use cases, and deploy them in environments that meet regulatory, sovereignty and data localization requirements.<\/p>\n Nemotron models are available on Hugging Face<\/u><\/a>, ModelScope<\/u><\/a>, OpenRouter<\/u><\/a> and build.nvidia.com<\/u><\/a> as NVIDIA NIM\u2122 microservices, and through NVIDIA Cloud Partners<\/u><\/a>, inference platforms and cloud service providers.<\/p>\n About NVIDIA<\/strong>\n
Across Japan, developers are building specialized AI with NVIDIA Nemotron open models and datasets, tailoring them to the country\u2019s industries and public-sector needs.<\/p>\n
Japanese enterprises are using NVIDIA Nemotron to modernize essential services, improve productivity and support the country\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n
Nemotron models are released with open weights, datasets and recipes, giving organizations the transparency and control to customize models for domain-specific workflows and deploy them where their applications and data reside.<\/p>\n
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