Mitsui Chemicals and IBM Japan have achieved higher accuracy and speed in the search for new applications of Mitsui Chemicals’ products by combining Microsoft Azure OpenAI’s GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a type of generative AI, and the IBM Watson AI. Specifically, the number of dictionaries created specific to Mitsui Chemicals increased approximately 10-fold, the efficiency of extracting new uses was...
Toyoda Gosei has developed a system that uses AI to automate the calculation of truck loading capacity in order to improve transportation efficiency during product delivery, and has begun operating the system at its Miyoshi Distribution Center in Miyoshi City, Aichi Prefecture. The system is expected to reduce the number of truck trips by approximately 4,400 per year, leading to...
Zeon has recently invested in Knowledge Palette, a company which develops AI drug discovery technology using single-cell transcriptome analysis. Knowledge Palette applies the world’s most accurate single-cell transcriptome analysis technology (Quartz-Seq2) to acquire large-scale data on the state of disease-causing cells. By using this information and AI technology to elucidate the causes of disease outbreaks, the company aims to efficiently...
Mitsui Chemicals and CrowdChem have jointly developed a technology that can consistently perform everything from the extraction of technological information that will be useful in the future to the search for new materials, utilizing AI technology. This will make it possible to improve the efficiency of new material search using natural language processing. Furthermore, by combining past achievements with generative...
Last month saw Bridgestone establish its first in-house venture company, Soft Robotics Ventures, in an effort to speed up advances in the realm of soft robotics. And now, as of Feb. 1, the tire manufacturer has signed a capital partnership agreement with Ascent Robotics, a developer and provider of intelligent robot systems. The agreement will see Bridgestone invest 500 million...
Sumitomo Rubber and NEC have collaborated to successfully develop AI of the know-how of masters (skilled designers) in tire development. The interpretation of sensory evaluation is based on communication between skilled designers and test drivers, an area that has been extremely difficult to systematize. This time, skilled designers from Sumitomo Rubber and data scientists from NEC collaborated to systematize the...
