Fujitsu partners Cohere to strengthen gen AI usage for enterprises

Fujitsu has partnered with Cohere, a security and data privacy-focused enterprise AI company headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, to provide generative AI usage for enterprises. 

The strategic partnership will focus on developing and providing large language model (LLM) that enables enterprises to leverage industry-leading Japanese language capabilities that deliver improved experiences for customers and employees. 

The new model, namely Takane, is an advanced Japanese language model based on Cohere’s frontier enterprise-grade LLM.  

Takane is based on Cohere's latest LLM, Command R+, which features enhanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities to mitigate hallucinations.  

Takane leverages Fujitsu's expertise in Japanese language training and fine-tuning technologies, and Cohere's enterprise-specific technologies. 

Takane will focus on the critical needs of specific industries and businesses to boost productivity and efficiency. These models will be developed as a service that can be utilised in private clouds for customers that require high security, such as financial institutions, government agencies, and R&D units.  

Fujitsu plans to start providing the AI model through Fujitsu Kozuchi, starting in September 2024. Takane will be offered for private environments, such as private clouds, to provide the best combination of outstanding AI services in a guaranteed secure environment for enterprise data. 

In addition, Fujitsu has made a significant investment and entered into a strategic partnership between the two companies.  

As part of the partnership, Fujitsu will become the exclusive provider of jointly developed services on the global market.  

Fujitsu plans to provide the jointly developed AI technology to customers through Fujitsu Data Intelligence PaaS, a cloud-based all-in-one operation platform, and Fujitsu Uvance, a cross-industry business model to solve social issues. 

In addition to its high performing generative AI models, Cohere also has best-in-class Embed and Rerank models to provide advanced enterprise search applications and RAG technology. These solutions enable companies to unlock real business value from their data. 

Fujitsu plans to release a knowledge graph extended RAG technology from Fujitsu Kozuchi in July 2024, and generative AI auditing technology in September 2024. 

Through joint development, Fujitsu and Cohere will further promote the utilisation of AI by companies, and accelerate digital transformation across global markets. 

On the other hand, Fujitsu’s generative AI amalgamation technology, which it plans to offer from Fujitsu Kozuchi starting in August 2024, will be combined as a part of Takane models developed through this partnership and various models for specific domains and existing machine learning models. This model will power generative AI capabilities designed to meet the high standards required of enterprises. 

Vivek Mahajan, corporate vice president, CTO, and CPO, Fujitsu, said: “We are very pleased to strengthen our generative AI for enterprises portfolio through this partnership with Cohere. Fujitsu has developed a knowledge graph extended RAG technology for logical inferences and a generative AI amalgamation technology for automatic generation of specialised generative AI models to meet the diverse needs of companies."

"Combining these with Cohere's latest highly secure enterprise LLMs, we aim to provide businesses with powerful and adaptable AI solutions that address specific needs and accelerate the adoption of generative AI globally," Mahajan added.

Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO, Cohere, said: “We believe that this strategic partnership with Fujitsu is a truly important step in offering world-class LLM capabilities to one of the most important enterprise markets in the world. For AI technologies to reach their full potential, we need to be able to meet enterprises where they are, whether that means in their own cloud environment, or in the languages that they do business. We are incredibly excited that our work with Fujitsu will help to unlock the enormous potential of Cohere’s technology to power the next generation of Japanese businesses.”

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