Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (Bloomberg)
Japan’s planned Rubin chip purchase would fund a domestic robotics foundation-model push involving major local tech companies.
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/japan-to-buy-nvidia-rubin-chips-to-build-sovereign-ai-for-robots"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260718/i1.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260718/p1#a260718p1" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/japan-to-buy-nvidia-rubin-chips-to-build-sovereign-ai-for-robots">Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC</a></b></span> — Japan is planning to buy 27,500 next-generation Rubin chips from Nvidia Corp. to build a homegrown foundational AI model for robots.</p>
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