Nvidia has partnered with Japanese consortium Noetra for the deployment of a Vera Rubin ‘AI Factory’ in Japan.

Built on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin DSX AI factory architecture and set to comprise 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs housed in Nvidia NVL72 racks interconnected by Spectrum-X Ethernet. In total, the deployment will deliver 140MW of data center capacity, the chip giant said.

The cluster will support a project launched by METI (Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) dubbed ‘Development of Multimodal Foundation Models with a View to AI Robotics and Physical AI.'

Launched in March, Japan’s AI robotics strategy aims for the country to capture a more than 30 percent share of the global AI robotics market by 2040.

The project brings together Japan’s “manufacturing expertise, real-world industrial data, and global technology leaders to develop highly reliable multimodal foundation models for physical AI,” Nvidia noted in a statement.

“Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now, it is building the AI factories that will power the next industrial revolution,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

“Nvidia is honored to partner with Japan and its industrial leaders to build the AI infrastructure that will power the country’s industries, its economy and a new generation of innovation.”

Hironobu Tamba, CEO of Noetra, added: “Bringing physical AI into the real world requires enormous computing, data, and foundational technologies - challenges no single company can solve alone.

"Together with partners across Japan and around the world, Noetra will advance Japan-developed multimodal foundation models and accelerate the deployment of physical AI across Japanese industries by broadly sharing the results of our research.”