TOKYO, Oct 5 – Japanese telecommunications and computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. has agreed with U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp. to jointly develop artificial intelligence infrastructure to create agents that operate in the robotics and other sectors.
Fujitsu, which announced the collaboration with Nvidia on Friday, aims to integrate its central processing units with the U.S. company’s graphics processing units, which power AI.
Fujitsu joins a growing number of Japanese companies that are working with U.S. companies on AI, such as Hitachi Ltd., which announced a partnership with OpenAI, the developer and operator of ChatGPT.
“Computing power accelerates the progress of AI,” Takahito Tokita, the president and CEO of Fujitsu, said at a press conference in Tokyo, where he was joined by Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.
Tokita said in a press release that by combining their firms’ cutting-edge technologies to build “full-stack AI infrastructure,” they can tailor the technology to assist in fields such as healthcare, manufacturing and customer service.
Fujitsu said it hopes to establish the AI infrastructure by 2030.
Huang said the “AI industrial revolution has begun, and we must build the infrastructure to power it — in Japan and across the globe.”
Fujitsu also unveiled a partnership with Japanese robot maker Yaskawa Electric Corp. to develop smart robots using the latter’s AI robotics technology.
