In an announcement earlier this month, Fujitsu commented on its recent partnership with Cohere Inc., a security and data privacy-focused enterprise AI company headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco. The strategic partnership aims to spearhead the development of a large language model (LLM) that enables enterprises to leverage industry-leading Japanese language capabilities that deliver improved experiences for customers and employees.
With Fujitsu’s significant investments in this partnership, it will become the sole provider of these jointly developed services to the global market. The two information technology firms are developing an advanced Japanese large language model inspired by Cohere’s enterprise-grade LLM. The model, codenamed Takane, is expected to drop in the market via Fujitsu Kozuchi AI service in September 2024. Takane will be strategically designed for private environments with intricate security prerequisites such as financial organs, government agencies, and R&D units.
Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere Inc., believes “this strategic partnership with Fujitsu is a truly important step in offering world-class LLM capabilities to one of the most important enterprise markets in the world. For AI technologies to reach their full potential, we need to be able to meet enterprises where they are, whether that means in their own cloud environment or in the languages that they do business in. We are incredibly excited that our work with Fujitsu will help to unlock the enormous potential of Cohere’s technology to power the next generation of Japanese businesses.”
Takane will be equipped with enhanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a key feature in Cohere’s latest LLM, Command R+, that mitigates hallucinations. According to the announcement, Takane leverages Fujitsu’s expertise in Japanese language training and fine-tuning technologies and Cohere’s enterprise-specific technologies. Through this particular joint venture, “Fujitsu and Cohere will further promote the utilization of AI by companies and accelerate digital transformation across global markets.”
With the widespread acceptance of AI in the workplace, most tech giants are beginning to understand the untapped potential of developing enterprise-grade generative AI. Vivek Mahajan, Corporate Vice President, CTO, and CPO, Fujitsu Limited, stressed the importance of strengthening Fujitsu’s “generative AI for enterprises portfolio through this partnership with Cohere. We aim to provide businesses with powerful and adaptable AI solutions that address specific needs and accelerate the adoption of generative AI globally.”
