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Nine Japanese firms form a venture for a sovereign physical AI model

development2026-04-13

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SoftBank, Sony, Honda and six other firms launched a joint venture to ship a Japanese trillion-parameter physical AI foundation model by 2030.

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Reporting date: 2026-04-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Nine Japanese firms form a venture for a sovereign physical AI model
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Reporting date: 2026-04-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-13-japan-forms-a-sovereign-physical-ai-venture
Claim: SoftBank, Sony, Honda and six other firms launched a joint venture to ship a Japanese trillion-parameter physical AI foundation model by 2030.
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- Welcome to April 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-13-2026
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