Japanese telecommuications firm NTT announced a series of research projects that could pave the way for better AI and more energy efficient data centers.
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry's top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Japanese telecommunications firm NTT announced a series of research projects that could pave the way for better AI and more energy efficient data centers. At a press conference in San Francisco, NTT researchers said the company has created a new large language model (LLM) integration that can see and process graphical elements of documents. It also said it has initiated a new field of science, "the physics of intelligence," to study sustainable and trustworthy AI. It teamed up with Harvard University to study brain science. And it successfully demoed its new all-photonic network for distributed data centers. The latter was announced by Yosuke Aragane, NTT's vice president of the IOWN Development Office. He said that separating large data centers into different locations in suburbs can reduce costs and improve energy efficiency when using NTT's fast fiber connections. GB Event GamesBeat Summit Call for Speakers We're thrilled to open our call for speakers to our flagship event, GamesBeat Summit 2024 hosted in Los Angeles, where we will explore the theme of "Resilience and Adaption". Apply to speak here NTT has more than 330,000 employees and $97 billion in annual revenue. It invests more than $3.6 billion in annual research and development, and five years ago it created an R&D division in Silicon Valley. At its Upgrade 2024 event, the firm talked about its progress in R&D in San Francisco. "Our mission, our task is that we upgrade what you think as normal to the next level," said Kazu Gomi, president and CEO of NTT Research, in press conference. NTT low-latency network in U.S. and U.K. Yosuke Aragane, NTT's vice president of the IOWN Development Office. Aragane said that NTT's IOWN All-photonics network (APN) demonstration has achieved very low communication delay for connected data centers, with…