NVIDIA and Japan Launch World's First National AI Infrastructure for Physical AI

NVIDIA, together with Noetra Corp. and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), unveiled the world's first national AI infrastructure dedicated to physical AI. The NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory, built by Noetra, will feature 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, delivering 140 megawatts of data center capacity using the NVIDIA DSX platform and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. This massive compute cluster will serve as the backbone for Japan's FRONTia Project, which aims to develop open multimodal foundation models for AI agents, digital twins, robotics, and other physical AI applications across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Japan's AI Robotics Strategy targets capturing over 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040, representing a $133 billion opportunity. The AI factory will train trillion-parameter models and provide pretrained weights to domestic developers alongside NVIDIA's Nemotron, Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, and NeMo software. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated, 'Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now it is building the AI factories that will power the next industrial revolution.' This initiative marks a strategic pivot from traditional manufacturing to AI-powered physical systems, leveraging Japan's onsite expertise with NVIDIA's cutting-edge silicon and systems.