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NTT Unveils AI Breakthroughs to Tackle Japan's Labor Shortage

11/21/2025

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) showcased advances in manufacturing and AI at its R&D Forum in Tokyo on November 19, 2025.
NTT demonstrated remote factory control over 300 kilometers, enabling a single team to manage multiple sites and address labor shortages in Japan.
It also launched tsuzumi 2, a lightweight AI model on a single GPU designed to reduce energy use and improve Japanese-language processing with multimodal support.

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) showcased advances in manufacturing and AI at its R&D Forum in Tokyo on November 19, 2025.
NTT demonstrated remote factory control over 300 kilometers, enabling a single team to manage multiple sites and address labor shortages in Japan.
It also launched tsuzumi 2, a lightweight AI model on a single GPU designed to reduce energy use and improve Japanese-language processing with multimodal support.