Japan's Digital Agency released parts of Gennai, the generative AI platform it runs for central-government staff, on GitHub under MIT / CC BY 4.0. The web app and cloud-specific AI templates for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are bundled together so local governments and private companies can redeploy the same stack.
Four Japanese tech giants form a new company backed by mega-banks and Nippon Steel to build a trillion-parameter foundation model for physical AI, with roughly ¥3 trillion in combined public-private funding.