SILICON VALLEY: Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp., has called for the promotion of artificial intelligence development in Japan.

“You should build it (AI) yourself,” Huang told a news conference Tuesday, noting that Japan’s language and culture are “very specific.”

The news conference was held on the sidelines of the GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, in San Jose, California, for AI developers.

“There’s no reason to allow some other third party to harvest that data (of Japan), create an AI and then import it back to Japan,” Huang also said.

“AI is the best way we know to improve the productivity of countries,” he stressed.

Among companies developing generative AI models in Japan are Elyza Inc., a Tokyo startup from a University of Tokyo laboratory, and Sakana AI K.K., founded also in the Japanese capital by former employees of U.S. technology giant Google.

On Nvidia, Huang said, “We have the AI technology, we have the tools necessary to do it, and we have the company infrastructure of course, and those three things–technology, expertise and infrastructure–are basically what a foundry is.”

At the GTC, Nvidia unveiled an advanced semiconductor with up to 30 times the performance of current products as well as a new tool that allows companies to use their proprietary data more easily to build custom generative AI models.

JIJI Press