Today, Fujitsu announced a strategic partnership with Cohere Inc., a security and data privacy-focused enterprise AI company headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco. This collaboration aims to develop a large language model (LLM) that enables enterprises to leverage industry-leading Japanese language capabilities to deliver improved customer and employee experiences.
As part of the partnership, Fujitsu has made a significant investment and become the exclusive provider of jointly developed services on the global market.
Fujitsu plans to use the jointly developed AI technology to solve social issues by providing it to customers through Fujitsu Data Intelligence PaaS and Fujitsu Uvance.
The two companies will jointly develop Takane (tentative name), an advanced Japanese language model based on Cohere’s frontier enterprise-grade LLM. Fujitsu plans to start providing the AI model through Fujitsu Kozuchi starting in September 2024.
Takane (tentative name) is based on Cohere’s latest LLM, Command R+, with enhanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. It’s a multilingual model trained on proprietary data for safety and transparency. Takane leverages Fujitsu’s Japanese language expertise and Cohere’s enterprise-specific technologies.
Takane (tentative name) will focus on the critical needs of specific industries and businesses to boost productivity and efficiency. These models will be developed as a service that can be utilized in private clouds for customers that require high security, such as financial institutions, government agencies, and R&D units.
Fujitsu plans to release a knowledge graph extended RAG technology from Fujitsu Kozuchi in July 2024, and generative AI auditing technology in September 2024.
Moreover, Fujitsu plans to offer a generative AI amalgamation technology in August 2024, which will be integrated into the Takane (tentative name) models.
“We are very pleased to strengthen our generative AI for enterprises portfolio through this partnership with Cohere. Fujitsu has developed a knowledge graph extended RAG technology for logical inferences and a generative AI amalgamation technology for the automatic generation of specialized generative AI models to meet companies’ diverse needs. Combining these with Cohere’s latest highly secure enterprise LLMs, we aim to provide businesses with powerful and adaptable AI solutions that address specific needs and accelerate the adoption of generative AI globally,” said Vivek Mahajan, Corporate Vice President, CTO, and CPO, Fujitsu Limited.
“We believe that this strategic partnership with Fujitsu is a truly important step in offering world-class LLM capabilities to one of the most important enterprise markets in the world. We are incredibly excited that our work with Fujitsu will help to unlock the enormous potential of Cohere’s technology to power the next generation of Japanese businesses,” commented Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere Inc.
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