is investing some ¥20 billion into generative AI trained on Japanese text and plans to launch its own LLM next year. Softbank, which has 40 million customers and a partnership with OpenAI ...

Seibu Railway incorporates four languages on the signs aboard some of its limited express trains. Despite the variety and only seconds of waiting before Japanese text rolls back around ...

The embassy did not mention anything about relocation, but the Beijing-based Japanese executive, who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the matter, said some companies were offering the ...

Imagine translating 32,000 boxes of Japanese text, each box consisting ... the game to allow translators to modify the text. Some of the 30 or so Scarlet Study team members flocked from other ...

Reader Steve T. sent in some awesome papercraft from JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. You can print out a paper from a .pdf file. Don’t be dismayed by the japanese ...

“When text isn’t set in stone ... If smaller Japanese publishers started localizing while the game was still in development, some just wouldn’t have the resources to dedicate to multiple ...

The Japanese government and big technology firms ... predict the next word on the basis of previous words in a piece of text. The vast majority of the text that ChatGPT’s previous model, GPT ...