News summary:
- NVIDIA partners with Noetra Corp. to build the NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory with 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs, providing 140 megawatts of data center capacity based on the NVIDIA DSX platform.
- The initiative, supported by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), will provide the computing foundation for Japan’s FRONTia project to strengthen the country’s ecosystem in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and more.
- AI factory to create open multimodal foundation models for developing AI agents, digital twins, robotics and physical AI applications.
NVIDIA announced today that it has partnered with Noetra Corp. is collaborating to launch an NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory with 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 NVIDIA Ruby GPUs for national physical AI. Supported by Japan’s AI and industry leaders, the initiative represents the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, strengthening the country’s AI ecosystem in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, telecommunications and more.
The new AI factory established by Noetra will be equipped with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks using the NVIDIA DSX™ platform and will be connected and scaled with NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networks. It will enable the development of open multimodal base models that support AI agents, digital twins, robotics and other physical AI applications.
The AI factory NVIDIA Vera Rubin will provide the computational basis for the Japanese FRONTia project, which refers to the project launched by METI entitled “Development of multimodal baseline models with regard to AI robotics and physical AI”. The project brings together the country’s manufacturing expertise, real-world industrial data and global technology leaders to develop highly reliable multimodal foundation models for physical AI.
The pre-trained weights of Noetra’s multimodal base models will be made generally available to domestic model developers and enterprises along with software such as NVIDIA Nemotron™, NVIDIA Cosmos™, NVIDIA Isaac™ GR00T open models, NVIDIA NeMo™ libraries, and more. This will accelerate the development of agent AI and physical AI applications.
“Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now it is building the AI factories that will power the next industrial revolution,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA is honored to work with Japan and its industry leaders to build the AI infrastructure that will power the country’s industries, its economy and a new generation of innovation.”
“Japan has launched the FRONTia project, which will serve as the core of the country’s physical AI ecosystem,” said Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. “By fostering collaboration between Japan and leading global innovators – including NVIDIA – and leveraging Japan’s strengths, such as its local expertise and manufacturing technology infrastructure, we will build highly reliable multimodal baseline models and help solve global social challenges.”
“Bringing physical AI to the real world requires enormous computing power, data and enabling technologies – challenges that no single company can solve alone,” said Hironobu Tamba, CEO of Noetra. “Together with partners across Japan and around the world, Noetra will advance the multimodal baseline models developed in Japan and accelerate the deployment of physical AI across Japanese industry by widely sharing the results of our research.”
The AI Factory is based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory architecture and will deliver 140 megawatts of data center capacity combined with the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform NVIDIA BlueField® DPUs and closely aligned semiconductors, systems and software deliver breakthrough AI performance, lower token costs and massive scalability for breakthrough AI training.
NVIDIA DSX provides a reference design and platform for AI factories, helping infrastructure builders shorten time to production, increase token throughput per megawatt, and operate with greater reliability and efficiency.
Advancing Japan’s physical AI ambitions
Japan’s AI robotics strategy, released in March, sets a goal for the country to capture more than 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040, with an estimated potential of $133 billion. To achieve this goal, METI is advancing a multimodal foundation model program for robotics and physical AI as part of Japan’s broader industrial AI policy.
With the expansion of the AI Factory, it will support the training of AI models on a trillion-parameter scale, giving organizations across Japan access to one of the most advanced AI environments in the world and laying the foundation for the next era of intelligent manufacturing and robotics.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/japan-government-industrial-leaders-and-nvidia-launch-the-worlds-first-national-ai-infrastructure
