Japan not seeking domestic AI replacement of US foundation models, says key lawmaker

It is reported that Akihisa Shiozaki, a key Japanese lawmaker and architect of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s AI policy, stated that Japan does not intend to develop domestic AI models to compete directly with US foundational models like OpenAI’s GPT or Anthropic’s Claude. Instead, Japan aims to create local models tailored for specific applications that will complement these foreign general-purpose models, all within a regulatory framework.

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