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Preferred Networks: Inside Japan’s Most Valuable AI Company
While the world’s attention focuses on OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, Japan’s most valuable AI company has been quietly building something different.…
Companies
While the world’s attention focuses on OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, Japan’s most valuable AI company has been quietly building something different.…
Every industrial robot, every CNC machining center, every semiconductor lithography machine, and every precision medical device shares a common dependency: they all…
In Kyoto, a city famous for temples and traditional craftsmanship, a semiconductor company has been quietly positioning itself at the center of…
Somewhere inside every semiconductor fabrication plant, every automotive assembly line, and every food packaging facility, there are components that most people have…
Most people outside Japan have never heard of Recruit Holdings. Yet this Tokyo-based conglomerate, with a market capitalization hovering around $70 billion,…
In a world grappling with rising temperatures and the urgent need for energy efficiency, one company from Osaka has quietly become the…
In 1973, a 28-year-old engineer named Shigenobu Nagamori founded a motor company in a converted barn in Kyoto with three employees and…
In a small workshop in Sakai, a city renowned for centuries of blade-making craftsmanship, Shozaburo Shimano began manufacturing bicycle freewheels in 1921.…
When physicists at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, completing the Standard Model of particle physics, the detection…
Every smartphone you have ever owned contains over a thousand components made by a single company most people have never heard of.…
With an operating margin above 55%, a market capitalization regularly placing it among Japan’s top five companies, and virtually zero public advertising,…
While TSMC and ASML grab headlines, one Japanese company quietly ensures that every semiconductor chip in the world gets physically separated from…