Japan, U.S. team up on generative AI to modernize research

Initiative to be mentioned in joint statement by Biden and Kishida

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Japan will deploy the Fugaku supercomputer, left, to develop AI for research, together with the Aurora supercomputer in the U.S. (Source photos from Riken and Argonne National Laboratory)

RYOSUKE MATSUZOE and SATOSHI KAWAHARA, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- The Japanese and U.S. governments will form a cooperative framework that will make use of generative artificial intelligence to take scientific research to the next level.

Japan's education minister Masahito Moriyama will soon travel to the U.S. to meet with David Turk, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. The two will sign a document outlining collaborative efforts concerning the technology.

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