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930 Japan is building physical AI it controls–and its biggest companies are all in

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia 2 place · 04/14/2026 06:00 EDT

Japan is building physical AI it controls–and its biggest companies are all in

Physical AI is Japan’s sovereign bet, with SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony building a trillion-parameter model. Japanese government pledges ¥1 trillion, steelmakers and banks hold stakes. Japan has stopped waiting for Silicon Valley to solve its industrial problems. On April 12, SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony jointly established a company called Japan AI Foundation Model ...

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