SoftBank AI Arm Partners with NICT on Safe AI

🔑 Enhanced Key Takeaways

• •SB Intuitions develops the 'Sarashina' series of Japanese-specialized large language models, including Sarashina2-70B and the multimodal Sarashina 2-Vision, leveraging SoftBank's AI computing infrastructure[2][3][5].
• •NICT established the CREATE lab in 2024-2025, specializing in AI security research including model interpretability, cybersecurity automation, and US-Japan collaborations with partners like NIST and MITRE[1].
• •SB Intuitions has pursued AI safety through its Sarashina Lab, prioritizing safety, reliability, and ease of use in advanced AI systems[8].

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