Supporting businesses, municipalities and start-ups wanting to use generative AI to accelerate solutions to social challenges
KDDI Corporation
September 1,2023
-- KDDI will collaborate (hereinafter referred to as this partnership) with Amazon Web Services Japan (hereinafter referred to as AWS) to comprehensively support businesses and municipalities using generative AI to accelerate generative AIs introduction to society.
Through this collaboration, KDDI will offer support to businesses and municipalities facing with challenges such as the workforce shortage and operational inefficiency. This support will cover how to apply generative AI developed by start-ups, as well as open-source generative AI, and provide AI solutions fit for specific problems. KDDI will start providing businesses, municipalities and start-ups with support as a one-stop-shop for developing and utilizing competitive generative AI from early October 2023.
Together with AWS Premier Tier Services Partner iret and other KDDI group companies, KDDI will provide infrastructure-design/development/operation/maintenance and a data-utilization platform that leverage AWS services, and conduct agile development of apps etc. Further, KDDI will serve as a matchmaker for businesses, municipalities, and start-ups through KDDI Labo. Bringing together the rapid development capabilities of start-ups and the KDDI Groups integration prowess, this collaboration will support the customization (fine-tuning) of generative AI models tailored to the respective challenges facing businesses and municipalities.
AWS will provide its latest generative AI services including diverse foundation models, cost-effective computing infrastructure, for customers to build applications, while also supporting start-ups through AWS Activate.
Through this collaboration, KDDI will expand the use and social implementation of generative AI to improve productivity throughout society and invigorate generative AI.
Background and issues
As the working population declines due to the low birth rate and Japans aging society, the workforce shortage has been accelerating, making better productivity a pressing issue.
In this environment, businesses and municipalities are advancing AI-based digital transformation initiatives to improve productivity. Generative AI in particular holds great potential for improving productivity.
The environment surrounding generative AI is changing quickly, spawning new technologies every day. If businesses and municipalities want to adopt generative AI with a sense of speed, partnering with start-ups that have new business ideas and cutting-edge expertise is a promising way to do it.
Meanwhile, for start-ups to develop generative AI for businesses and municipalities in ways optimized for their challenges and in a competitive manner, they need data for customization, efficient development environments, and more opportunities to collaborate with those businesses and municipalities.
About this collaboration Under this collaboration, the following support will be provided to businesses, municipalities and start-ups that need to solve certain challenges to revitalize operations and realize DX.
1. Content of support Content of supportSupport provider
Providing cloud services necessary to build generative AI solutions
Providing tools, resources, and expert support through the start-up support program AWS Activate
AWS
Designing, developing, operating and maintaining infrastructure that the AWS services use
Agile development of applications etc. KDDI Agile Development Center
iret
Providing data-utilization platforms FLYWHEEL
Business matching KDDI Labo
KDDI
2. Target organizations
(1)
Businesses and municipalities
Businesses and municipalities with specific challenges that want to promote DX and reform their operations
(2)
Start-ups
Start-ups looking to develop generative AI
3. Starting date of support Scheduled for early October 2023
4. Inquiries
(1)
For businesses or municipalities interested in utilizing generative AI
Please contact a KDDI corporate sales representative or our corporate customer center.
Call
0077-7007 (toll-free), or
0120-921-919 (toll-free)
Hours: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm (except Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and the beginning/end of the year)
(2)
For start-ups interested in this initiative
Please contact us through the
Labo inquiry form (in Japanese only)
Going forward, KDDI will continue to collaborate with a range of generative AI providers to offer environments from which customers can choose the generative AI that best fits their needs.
The information contained in the news releases is current at the time of publication. Products, service fees,service content and specifications, contact information, and other details are subject to change without notice.
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