Japan Becomes First Partner in U.S. Genesis Mission... Nvidia and Fujitsu Join Forces

U.S. Department of Energy and Japan's MEXT Sign Agreement
Argonne National Laboratory and RIKEN Also Join Forces

Japan has become the first partner country in the "Genesis Mission" promoted by the Trump administration in the United States. The Genesis Mission is a plan to consolidate decades of scientific data and resources accumulated by the United States into a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform. With Japan's participation, Nvidia and Japan's Fujitsu are now set to collaborate in earnest.

On January 28, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) reported that at a meeting held the previous day in Osaka, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) signed a cooperation document for the Genesis Mission.

Genesis Plan Announced by the White House. White House.

An official from MEXT told Nikkei, "To compete globally in AI, we must collaborate with powerful partners."

The Genesis Mission, led by the U.S. federal government, involves 24 major American tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. The plan is also referred to as the "Manhattan Project for AI," as the United States aims to take the lead in AI technology ahead of other countries, just as it was the first to develop the atomic bomb through the Manhattan Project.

With this signing, Nvidia from the United States, Fujitsu from Japan, Argonne National Laboratory under the U.S. DOE, and RIKEN from Japan will each collaborate in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational science. RIKEN, Fujitsu, and Nvidia are already jointly participating in the development of the next-generation model of "Fugaku," the world's top supercomputer. Nikkei assessed that Japan stands to benefit significantly from gaining access to the United States' high-performance supercomputers and vast scientific data.

The number of Japanese companies participating in the Genesis Mission is expected to increase further. This is because the Japanese government has designated technologies with high economic security importance, such as nuclear fusion and quantum technology, as "national strategic technologies," and is focusing on nurturing research and industry in these areas.

In particular, the technology from Japan that has attracted the most attention from the United States is robotics. Nikkei reported, "The U.S. side appears to be interested in automation technologies for scientific experiments using AI-equipped robots, an area where Japan has a strong advantage."

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