Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to support the development of generative AI by domestic startup companies, etc. The company will borrow cloud services from Google in the United States, and will be able to use them free of charge for six months for purposes such as AI data learning.
Each organization receiving support will aim to develop a large-scale language model that is also compatible with Japanese and will serve as the basis for Generative AI, as well as a model with a view to fully autonomous driving.