KDDI and ELYZA announce capital and business tie-up for the generative AI business, Tokyo, Japan - 18 Mar 2024
Japan's telecommunication giant KDDI president Makoto Takahashi (R) shakes hands with generative AI start-up ELYZA president Yuya Soneoka (L) as they announce KDDI group will have more than 50-percent stake of ELYZA for their capital and business alliance at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday, March 18, 2024. ELYZA announced last week they developed the 70 billion parameters Japanese large language model (LLM) for the company's generative artificial intelligence (AI).