Japan-based Fujitsu has partnered with data security-focused enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) company Cohere to offer generative AI for enterprises.
Through the partnership, both parties will develop and provide large language model (LLM) to enterprises. The LLM will enable companies to utilise Japanese language capabilities that deliver better experiences for customers and employees.
Besides, Fujitsu has made a significant investment in Cohere.
Cohere co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez said: “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.
“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.”
As part of the collaboration, Fujitsu will become the exclusive provider of jointly developed services around the world.
The company also plans to offer the jointly developed AI technology to customers through cloud-based all-in-one operation platform Fujitsu Data Intelligence PaaS and Fujitsu Uvance, a cross-industry business model aimed at tackling social challenges.
Fujitsu and Cohere also intend to build an advanced Japanese language model based on Cohere’s frontier enterprise-grade LLM.
Tentatively named Takane, the new AI model will be made available through Fujitsu Kozuchi starting in September 2024.
Takane will be available for deployment in private environments like private clouds, ensuring excellent AI services within a secure environment tailored for enterprise data.
It has been built on Cohere’s latest LLM Command R+, which includes advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities to reduce hallucinations.
Besides, Takane is a multilingual model trained from scratch on proprietary data, ensuring safety and transparency. It also uses Fujitsu’s expertise in Japanese language training and fine-tuning technologies, with Cohere’s enterprise-specific technologies.
The new AI model will focus on the major needs of specific industries and businesses to boost productivity and efficiency.
Fujitsu corporate vice president, chief technology officer, and chief product officer Vivek Mahajan said: “Fujitsu has developed a knowledge graph extended RAG technology for logical inferences and a generative AI amalgamation technology for automatic generation of specialised generative AI models to meet the diverse needs of companies.
“Combining these with Cohere’s latest highly secure enterprise LLMs, we aim to provide businesses with powerful and adaptable AI solutions that address specific needs and accelerate the adoption of generative AI globally.”
