NVIDIA and Noetra to Build Japan's National-Scale AI Factory
The project positions Japan as a testbed for physical AI infrastructure, combining government backing with NVIDIA's hardware to build a foundation model for real-world industrial applications.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
NVIDIA and Noetra, with support from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, will build the NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Factory, a large-scale AI computing platform with over 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs. The 140-megawatt data center will train an open multimodal foundation model for physical AI applications in manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare. The model weights will be provided to Japanese companies and research institutions as part of the FRONTia Project.
The AI factory is designed to train a multimodal foundation model for physical AI, meaning AI that operates in the real world through robots, digital twins, and autonomous machines. The project, called FRONTia, is promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said Japan created today's manufacturing industry and that the AI factory will drive the next industrial revolution. The developed model's weights will be provided to domestic AI development companies and research institutions.
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- ASCII.jp 次の産業革命は日本から NVIDIAが国家規模の「AI工場」