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Japan's NTT Has Become an Under-the-Radar AI Powerhouse

Japan's NTT Has Become an Under-the-Radar AI Powerhouse

Bloomberg15-04-2025
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Mayumi Negishi revisits a Japanese AI pioneer hiding in plain sight.
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