co-authored by Jerry Chi and Ilya Kulyatin

Japan is playing a unique, crucial role in the global AI ecosystem. In this post, we go beyond hand-wavy claims like “jApAn is sTiLL iNnoVatiVe” and concretely summarize why Tokyo and Japan are hugely relevant for AI globally (and show that we’re …

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There’s a neverending onslaught of bad news of negative trends in Japan. Depreciating yen, aging population, ballooning debt, stagnant GDP, lower ranking in digital competitiveness, dwindling fish population, declining music industry, political scandals… it seems everything is worsening.

But the news media tends to give a …