Soka City Becomes First Municipality in Japan to Adopt On-Premises Generative AI
By keeping generative AI on-premises, Soka City can now apply it to confidential administrative work such as meeting minutes and internal regulations, tasks that were previously restricted in input.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
FIXER announced that Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, has begun introducing the on-premises generative AI service Sovereign GaiXer, the first such case among municipalities nationwide. The city has promoted AI use to address labor shortages from the declining birthrate and aging population, but conventional generative AI raised information leakage concerns for tasks handling personal and confidential data. The new system keeps AI use within a closed city office environment.
Sovereign GaiXer is a Japanese-language generative AI service for companies and government offices, sold as a package that combines software with a dedicated hardware unit. FIXER says the bundled design lets a secure environment be built in a short period, where general on-premises setups require significant time and cost for server construction and system design. The unit offers up to 1000 TOPS of processing performance and is priced as a one-time purchase, with no charges tied to generation count or usage volume.
Soka City has already deployed AI-OCR, AI translation devices, an AI reception guidance system, an AI text conversion tool, and purpose-specific generative AI services across the city office. The new system extends generative AI to tasks previously restricted in input, including meeting minutes containing personal information, plans based on confidential data, and drafts of internal regulations.
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