Finance Associated Press, November 13th (Editor Qin Jiahe) SoftBank will be the first to use Nvidia's latest Blackwell platform to build Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer, meeting Japan's urgent needs to catch up in the field of artificial intelligence.

At the Nvidia AI Summit held in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, Nvidia's founder and CEO Jensen Huang stated that SoftBank is using the Nvidia Blackwell platform to build an AI supercomputer for the development of generative AI and AI-related business. It is expected to become the most powerful supercomputer in Japan in terms of performance.

In addition, SoftBank also plans to build the next supercomputer based on the more advanced Nvidia Grace Blackwell platform for running computationally intensive workloads.

In addition to the AI supercomputer, SoftBank has collaborated with Nvidia to successfully build the world's first artificial intelligence wireless access network (AI-RAN) that supports AI and 5G workloads simultaneously.

Huang Renxun mentioned that this network will be able to parallel process AI tasks and 5G data streams, providing powerful infrastructure support for future technology applications such as autonomous driving, remote robot control while effectively reducing electrical consumption.

SoftBank will collaborate with Fujitsu and IBM Red Hat to further test AI-RAN.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son stated that Japan is at the forefront of technological change. "This is the moment to catch up, we must not miss this opportunity."