Japan's Enterprises and Startups Build Industry-Specialized AI With NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models
News Summary:
Institution of Science Tokyo, SoftBank Corp.'s SB Intuitions and Stockmark are adopting NVIDIA Nemotron to build locally developed AI models designed to serve Japanese users, businesses and institutions amid the country's demographic and workforce transition.
Japanese enterprises avatarin, ENEOS Holdings, Hitachi and NTT DATA are building Japanese-language AI applications with NVIDIA Nemotron, from remote-presence robotics to enterprise agents and specialized medical and contact centers.
Sakana AI is integrating NVIDIA Nemotron into its Fugu model-routing platform, expanding the set of AI models Fugu can intelligently orchestrate to dynamically select the best model for each task.
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 NVIDIA Nemotron™ open models, data and libraries, accelerating the development of AI tailored to Japan's language, industries and workforce.
Open models are the foundation of national AI ecosystems, giving organizations the ability to customize, deploy and govern AI they control.
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.
"Every nation and every company should own and control its intelligence infrastructure. Open models make that possible," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "They give countries, enterprises and researchers the freedom to inspect, improve, adapt, secure and deploy AI for their own needs. Together with Japan's AI leaders, we are advancing an open AI ecosystem that accelerates discovery, strengthens national capability and ensures every society can participate in — and benefit from — the AI revolution."
Building Specialized AI for Japan With NVIDIA Nemotron
Across Japan, developers are building specialized AI with NVIDIA Nemotron open models and datasets, tailoring them to the country's industries and public-sector needs.
Institute of Science Tokyo developed its Swallow family of open foundation models using NVIDIA Nemotron datasets and the NVIDIA NeMo™ software stack for continual pretraining and post-training. Swallow models enhance Japanese language and reasoning performance while preserving the underlying models' 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.