Japan's AI leaders standardize on NVIDIA's open Nemotron models
NVIDIA says Institute of Science Tokyo, SoftBank's SB Intuitions, and Stockmark all built Japanese-language models on its open-weight Nemotron models and datasets — with SB Intuitions' Sarashina3 mini picked by Japan's Digital Agency. The through-line is sovereignty: open weights, datasets, and recipes let Japanese institutions inspect and deploy AI they control, and the roster now spans ENEOS, Hitachi, NTT DATA, and Sakana AI. Framed by NVIDIA as a national open-AI ecosystem, it reads as one vendor consolidating position across a country's model stack.
Source: globenewswire.com ↗
Every nation and every company should own and control its intelligence infrastructure. Open models make that possible.
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO
Why this matters
- → Japan's tech leaders deploy AI they can inspect and control, not just license
- → Open weights + datasets let institutions customize models for local industries and compliance
- → NVIDIA consolidates position across Japan's model stack via sovereign-AI framing
Sovereignty through open AI