Japan and NVIDIA Launch National Physical AI Infrastructure

The Government of Japan and NVIDIA Corporation announced a massive national AI infrastructure project to secure technological sovereignty and capture 30 percent of the global AI robotics market by 2040. Central to this strategy is the FRONTia Project, launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which focuses on creating multimodal foundation models for robotics, digital twins, and industrial automation. To power this ecosystem, Japan is purchasing 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs to build the NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory.

Noetra Corp., a consortium of 44 companies including SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda, will manage the 140-megawatt facility. While some reports indicate a computing hub launch by 2028, Noetra aims to complete the computing facility by April 2027 and release an omnimodal AI model by 2028. This effort seeks to prevent Japan from becoming an AI colony by leveraging its domestic manufacturing data to compete with the U.S. and China.

During a visit to Tokyo, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the AI factory and launched the Cosmos 3 Edge world model to help robots navigate physical environments. NVIDIA also formed the Cosmos Coalition with industrial leaders such as Fujitsu, FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to standardize autonomous systems across logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. Additionally, NVIDIA is expanding into Japanese biotechnology via the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, partnering with pharmaceutical firms like Astellas Pharma and Daiichi Sankyo.