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# Japan — METI ¥10T AI Strategy · sovereign AI programme
Sovereign programme record · Japan · 2024–2030

## Japan: ~$7.90B in government funding

# Japan: METI ¥10T AI Strategy / RIKEN FugakuNEXT / Rapidus

-   Announced—
    
    No announced dollar amount on record.
    
-   Government funding~$7.90B
    
-   Committed~$7.90B
    
-   Disbursed—
    
    No disbursed dollar amount on record.
    

Funding stages share a dollar scale. A hatched track marks an absent figure and gives its reason. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Cite

**Operating compute / delivered hardware**. Reported operational or delivered: 1,600 NVIDIA Blackwell (physical hardware); 540 NVIDIA Blackwell (physical hardware).

### Funding components

| Component | Kind | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| METI framework: more than ¥10T public support through FY2030 | Government | — |
| FY2026 AI and semiconductor budget (¥1.239T; approximately US$7.9B reported by Qazinform/Jiji) | Government | $7.90B |
| 2024 cloud-compute assistance plans (US$740M / approximately ¥114.6B, NVIDIA’s May account) | Government | $740M |
| SoftBank’s 2024 compute-expansion plan (¥150B / approximately US$960M, reported by NVIDIA) | Private | — |

### Hardware on record

<table class="reg-table" aria-label="Tracked accelerators for this programme"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Model</th><th scope="col" class="num">Count</th><th scope="col">Status</th><th scope="col">Organisation / role</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="reg-name">NVIDIA Blackwell</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">1,600</span></td><td>Delivered</td><td>RIKEN (RIKYU, restricted early access)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:1.55;white-space:normal;color:var(--text-secondary)">Physical hardware: RIKYU’s 400 GB200 NVL4 nodes; restricted early access through September 2026. <a href="https://docs.r-ccs.riken.jp/rikyu/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--teal);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px">Primary source</a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">NVIDIA Blackwell</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">540</span></td><td>Operational</td><td>RIKEN (ROQUO)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:1.55;white-space:normal;color:var(--text-secondary)">Physical hardware: ROQUO’s 135 GB200 NVL4 nodes; access initially limited to project participants. <a href="https://www.riken.jp/pr/news/2026/20260619_2/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--teal);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px">Primary source · 2026-06-19</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Empanelled partners · 17

<table class="reg-table" aria-label="Partners and reported allocations"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Partner</th><th scope="col" class="num">Accelerators</th><th scope="col">Model</th><th scope="col">Stage</th><th scope="col">Source</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="reg-name">SAKURA Internet</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:underline dashed var(--amber);text-underline-offset:4px">~10,800</span></td><td>NVIDIA H100 + NVIDIA HGX B200</td><td>Awarded</td><td><a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2024/0419_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-04-19</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:1.55;white-space:normal;color:var(--text-secondary)">Physical hardware: SAKURA’s planned total after Hopper and B200 expansion, described in November 2024. <a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/japan-cloud-leaders-build-nvidia-ai-infrastructure-to-transform-industries" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--teal);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px">Primary source · 2024-11-12</a></p><p>METI approved up to about ¥50.1 billion for its GPU cloud project in April 2024. Data Center Dynamics reported this subsidy ceiling as approximately US$324M on 19 April 2024. NVIDIA’s November 2024 account described an expansion from 2,000 to nearly 4,000 Hopper GPUs, plus HGX B200 systems, toward approximately 10,800 GPUs in total.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">KDDI Corporation</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>NVIDIA HGX + planned NVIDIA GB200 NVL72</td><td>Awarded</td><td><a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2024/0419_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-04-19</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>METI approved up to about ¥10.24 billion in April 2024. Data Center Dynamics reported this subsidy ceiling as approximately US$66M on 19 April 2024. NVIDIA reported that November that KDDI was building HGX systems and planning a liquid-cooled data centre with GB200 NVL72 racks.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Highreso</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">1,600</span></td><td>NVIDIA H200</td><td>Awarded</td><td><a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2024/0419_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-04-19</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:1.55;white-space:normal;color:var(--text-secondary)">Physical hardware: Planned GPUs across Highreso’s two AI data centres, described in November 2024. <a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/japan-cloud-leaders-build-nvidia-ai-infrastructure-to-transform-industries" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--teal);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px">Primary source · 2024-11-12</a></p><p>Highreso and Highreso Kagawa jointly received approval for up to about ¥7.70 billion in April 2024. NVIDIA’s November announcement described a planned 1,600 GPUs across two AI data centres, including H200 systems at Kagawa.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">RUTILEA</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">&gt;1,000</span></td><td>NVIDIA Hopper (H100/H200)</td><td>Awarded</td><td><a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2024/0419_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-04-19</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:1.55;white-space:normal;color:var(--text-secondary)">Physical hardware: RUTILEA’s Hopper capacity described in November 2024. <a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/japan-cloud-leaders-build-nvidia-ai-infrastructure-to-transform-industries" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--teal);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px">Primary source · 2024-11-12</a></p><p>RUTILEA and AI Fukushima jointly received approval for up to about ¥2.56 billion in April 2024. NVIDIA’s November account described an expansion to more than 1,000 Hopper GPUs; AI Fukushima’s Okuma data centre had begun operating that September.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">GMO Internet Group</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>NVIDIA H200</td><td>Awarded</td><td><a href="https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2024/0419_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-04-19</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>METI approved up to about ¥1.93 billion in April 2024. NVIDIA’s November announcement described GMO GPU Cloud’s H200 systems with Spectrum-X networking and BlueField-3 processors.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Sakana AI</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://sakana.ai/nedo-grant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-02-02</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected for GENIAC in February 2024 as one of seven institutions. Sakana’s announcement describes access to a GPU supercomputing cluster for several months in 2024.</p><ul><li>The selection announcement gives no GPU count for Sakana’s allocation.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Turing Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://tur.ing/en/news/20250715/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2025-07-15</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected in GENIAC’s first three rounds, beginning in February 2024. Its July 2025 project develops an in-vehicle foundation model for autonomous driving, following work on the HERON vision-and-language model.</p><ul><li>The July 2025 selection announcement gives no GPU allocation for Turing.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Preferred Elements, Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://www.preferred.jp/ja/news/pr20241015" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-10-15</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Released PLaMo-100B-Pretrained in October 2024 following GENIAC’s first round. An August technical report described a separate pre-training experiment with a one-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model; the team reported stable training but insufficient evaluation of model performance.</p><ul><li>The October 2024 release gives no GPU allocation for Preferred Elements.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Kotoba Technologies Japan, Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000001.000151406.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-10-29</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected for GENIAC twice in 2024. Its October announcement describes Japanese speech-model training with multilingual audio data and the release of the Kotoba SpeechGen beta; earlier Kotoba-Speech work addressed real-time Japanese–English translation.</p><ul><li>The company’s October announcement gives no GPU allocation.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">SoftBank Corp.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://www.softbank.jp/corp/news/press/sbkk/2025/20250213_01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2025-02-13</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected in October 2024 for a GENIAC dataset study with Macromill, Valright Advisory and Nippon Total Telemarketing. Their February 2025 announcement targeted roughly one million question-and-answer dialogue records from around 30,000 participants, alongside research on data management and access.</p><ul><li>The cited selection concerns a dataset study; no GPU allocation is specified.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">ABEJA, Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://www.abejainc.com/en/news/20250127/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2025-01-27</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected in February and October 2024 for GENIAC work on smaller language models. Company tests reported in January 2025 placed its 32-billion-parameter model above GPT-4 on mtbench and elyza-tasks.</p><ul><li>The model announcement gives no GPU allocation for ABEJA.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, The University of Tokyo</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://weblab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/2024-08-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-08-30</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Released Tanuki-8×8B in August 2024 with GENIAC support. The laboratory first ran a seven-team development competition, then continued with the winning team to train the larger model.</p><ul><li>The release announcement gives no GPU allocation for the laboratory.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Stockmark Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://stockmark.co.jp/r-and-d/topics/20240516/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-05-16</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected for GENIAC in February 2024 and released Stockmark-LLM-100b that May. It trained the model on Japanese business information and designed it to withhold answers when it lacked the required knowledge, with planned retrieval-based integration of companies’ internal information.</p><ul><li>The release announcement gives no GPU allocation for Stockmark.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Ubitus K.K.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">256</span></td><td>NVIDIA H100</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://ubitus.ai/geniac/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-10-11</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:1.55;white-space:normal;color:var(--text-secondary)">Project allocation: H100 capacity for a six-month GENIAC project announced in October 2024. <a href="https://ubitus.ai/geniac/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--teal);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px">Primary source · 2024-10-11</a></p><p>Selected for GENIAC in October 2024. Ubitus announced a six-month project using 256 H100 GPUs to adapt Llama 3.1 405B for Chinese, Japanese and Korean tourism content.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">AI inside Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>NVIDIA H100 (via AWS EC2 P5)</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://inside.ai/en/news/2024/1010_geniac-adoption" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2024-10-10</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected in October 2024 to develop models that structure unstructured documents, with planned use in DX Suite. AI inside’s CTO later reported using Amazon EC2 P5 instances for this research; AWS’s July 2025 account covers support for 12 GENIAC participants.</p><ul><li>The AWS account reports shared programme usage; it gives no GPU count specific to AI inside.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Rakuten Group, Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2025/0715_02.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2025-07-15</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected for GENIAC’s third round in July 2025. Rakuten proposed a Japanese-language foundation model with greater memory of prior interactions, intended for personalised AI agents, alongside work on training and inference efficiency.</p><ul><li>The selection announcement gives no GPU allocation for Rakuten.</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="reg-name">Alivexis, Inc.</td><td class="num"><span style="font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap">—</span></td><td>—</td><td>Empanelled</td><td><a href="https://alivexis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Alivexis_IR_EN_20250715.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Primary source · 2025-07-15</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><div class="v2-note" style="white-space:normal"><p>Selected for GENIAC’s third round in July 2025. The drug-discovery project combines Alivexis’s ModBind simulation technology with model training to predict the biological activity of small molecules.</p><ul><li>The selection announcement gives no GPU allocation for Alivexis.</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

### External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: High · US technology: High. These are editorial assessments based on the programme’s procurement disclosures.

Named partners: NVIDIA, Fujitsu, Sakura Internet, KDDI, SoftBank, GMO, Highreso, RUTILEA, RIKEN, MEXT, Rapidus.

RIKEN's RIKYU system has 1,600 Blackwell GPUs and is in restricted early access through September 2026. Its separate ROQUO system began operation on 19 June 2026 with 540 Blackwell GPUs for hybrid quantum and supercomputer research. FugakuNEXT targets operation around 2030 and more than 600 EFLOPS at sparse FP8 precision. METI's AI and semiconductor framework provides for more than ¥10 trillion in public support through FY2030. Rapidus reported working 2 nm GAA transistor prototypes in July 2025; it targets mass production in 2027.

### Data-quality caveats on this record · 4

-   The hardware entries count RIKYU and ROQUO. Partner projects include dated expansion plans and temporary compute access; they do not form a national installed-GPU inventory.
-   The FY2026 budget, enacted on 7 April 2026, includes ¥1.239T for AI and semiconductors. It provides ¥150B in equity for IPA to support next-generation semiconductor companies and ¥387.3B for multimodal foundation-model development. Qazinform, citing Jiji Press on 29 December 2025, reported the ¥1.239T proposal as approximately US$7.9B.
-   METI’s April 2024 cloud-project approvals set maximum subsidies in yen. Data Center Dynamics reported the awards as ¥72.5B (approximately US$470M). NVIDIA’s May 2024 account described US$740M (approximately ¥114.6B) in planned assistance to six firms over the preceding two months. These accounts cover different award groups; neither provides a payment total.
-   ROQUO access initially covers project participants. RIKYU remains in Early Access Phase 2 through September 2026.

### The evidence trail

31 cited sources

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-   [RIKEN, 22 August 2025: FugakuNEXT targets operation around 2030 and over 600 EFLOPS at sparse FP8 precision](https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/news/2025/20250822_1/index.html) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
-   [METI framework: more than ¥10T public support for AI and semiconductors through FY2030](https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/mono_info_service/ai_semiconductor_frame/ai_semiconductor_frame.html) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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-   [Rapidus, 18 July 2025: working 2 nm GAA prototypes; April 2025 pilot start and 2027 mass-production target](https://www.rapidus.inc/en/news_topics/information/rapidus-achieves-significant-milestone-at-its-state-of-the-art-foundry-with-prototyping-of-leading-edge-2nm-gaa-transistors/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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-   [Preferred Networks, 20 August 2024: one-trillion-parameter pre-training experiment and limits of its performance evaluation](https://www.preferred.jp/ja/blog/tech/pretraining-1t) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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-   [METI account of CEATEC, 18 October 2024: Kotoba-Speech Japanese–English translation research](https://www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/mono_info_service/geniac/geniac_magazine/ceatec.html) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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-   [University of Tokyo Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, 30 August 2024: Tanuki-8×8B and its internal development competition](https://weblab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/2024-08-30/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
-   [Stockmark, 16 May 2024: GENIAC-supported model release, business-data training and planned internal-information retrieval](https://stockmark.co.jp/r-and-d/topics/20240516/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
-   [Ubitus, 11 October 2024: six-month multilingual tourism-model project using 256 H100 GPUs](https://ubitus.ai/geniac/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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-   [AWS, 22 July 2025: GENIAC cycle-two infrastructure and AI inside’s own account of EC2 P5 use](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/beyond-accelerators-lessons-from-building-foundation-models-on-aws-with-japans-geniac-program/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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