🏹Toyota recognizes domestically produced AI venture, “Algorithm era” opens
Toyota invested 1 billion yen in PKSHA Technology (Parkshiachnology) which opened its initial public offering on the TSE Mothers market on March 22. In August of this year, we also invested 10.5 billion yen in Preferred Networks (PFN), which also invested 1 billion yen in 2015, becoming the largest outside shareholder. What is common to both is that it is a Japanese company based in Tokyo with an IT venture specializing in cutting edge image / language processing using the deep learning (depth learning) method. Bloomberg
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