Japan launches world’s first national AI infrastructure with Nvidia

Japan’s government and industry have partnered with Nvidia to build the world’s first national AI infrastructure, called the Vera Rubin AI factory. The facility will house 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs, delivering about 140 MW of data‑center capacity and backed by roughly ¥1 trillion (US$6 billion) over five years. It will serve the METI‑led FRONTia project, which aims to create open multimodal foundation models for physical AI across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and other sectors.

At the same time Nvidia unveiled the Cosmos 3 Edge model – a 4‑billion‑parameter world model for on‑device vision and robot‑policy reasoning – and announced the expansion of its Cosmos Coalition to include more than two dozen Japanese robotics and manufacturing leaders such as FANUC, Yaskawa, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and SoftBank. The coalition will develop open physical‑AI models and integrate them into robots, shipbuilding, and other industrial applications. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, said the collaboration gives Japan a “sovereign AI” platform to reduce reliance on overseas technology and supports the country’s goal of deploying ten million robots by 2040.