Nvidia and SoftBank have partnered to launch Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer using Nvidia's new Grace Blackwell platform. Announced during Nvidia's AI Summit in Tokyo on Wednesday, the collaboration features SoftBank being the first to deploy Nvidia's DGX B200 systems to build the DGX SuperPOD,

SoftBank Group Corp. will be the first Nvidia Corp. customer to build a supercomputer based on the chipmaker’s new Blackwell design, a move to meet growing demand in a country eager to catch up in artificial intelligence.

The CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. expressed high hopes for Japan’s role in the artificial intelligence robotics revolution during talks with Softbank Group Corp.’s CEO on Nov. 13.