// AI MODELS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

AI models from Japan

49 generative AI models built by labs and companies based in Japan — LLMs, image, video and audio. A model's country is the country of the organization that created it.

49 models
Preferred Networks

PLaMo 3.0 Prime

Preferred Networks

Jun 2026
Language Proprietary
Sakana AI

Sakana Fugu

Sakana AI

Jun 2026
Language Proprietary
SO

Signal Processing Transformer

Softbank

Sep 2025
Language Proprietary
TI

IEV2MOL

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Oct 2024
Language Proprietary
TI

Mothra

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Sep 2024
Language Proprietary
HU

pKALM

Hokkaido University

Sep 2024 5.1M
Language Proprietary
KU

PLTNUM

Kyoto University

Sep 2024 650M
Language Proprietary
PN

PLaMo-100B

Preferred Networks Inc

Jun 2024 100B
Language Proprietary
TU

Fugaku-LLM

Tohoku University

May 2024 13B
Language Open (Restricted)
TI

Swallow

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Apr 2024 70M
Language Open (Restricted)
NC

NEC cotomi

NEC Corporation

Apr 2024
Language Proprietary
NC

tsuzumi 7B upgrade 2024

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Apr 2024 7B
Language Proprietary
KI

Karakuri LM

KARAKURI Inc.

Jan 2024 70B
Language Open (Restricted)
TI

Prothyena

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Jan 2024 4.3M
Language Proprietary
LI

Qarasu-14B

Lightblue

Dec 2023 14B
Language Open (Restricted)
EL

Elyza

Elyza

Dec 2023 13B
Language Open (Restricted)
RI

nekomata-14b

rinna

Dec 2023 14.2B
Language Open (Restricted)
NC

tsuzumi 7B

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Dec 2023 7B
Language Proprietary
CY

Calm2-7B

CyberAgent

Nov 2023 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
ST

Stockmark-13B

Stockmark

Oct 2023 13.2B
Language Open (Restricted)
PN

PLaMo-13B

Preferred Networks Inc

Sep 2023 13B
Language Open (Restricted)
LC

Japanese-LM-3.6B

LINE Corporation

Aug 2023 3.6B
Language Open (Restricted)
ML

Weblab-10B

Matsuo Lab

Aug 2023 10B
Language Open Weights
RI

bilingual-gpt-neox-4b

rinna

Jul 2023 3.8B
Language Open (Restricted)
AI

PolySphere-1

AI inside

Jun 2023 14B
Language Proprietary
CY

OpenCALM

CyberAgent

May 2023 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
AB

GPT-NeoX-Japanese

Abeja

Jul 2022 2.7B
Language Open (Restricted)
LC

B2T connection (16L)

LINE Corporation

Jun 2022
Language Open (Restricted)
PN

PFP

Preferred Networks Inc

May 2022
Language Proprietary
WU

BERT-RBP

Waseda University

Apr 2022 110M
Language Open Weights
RI

Japanese-GPT-1B

rinna

Jan 2022 1.3B
Language Open (Restricted)
NI

Subformer (122M)

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Jan 2021 122M
Language Proprietary
UO

Subformer (83M)

University of Tokyo

Jan 2021 83M
Language Proprietary
UO

Subformer (96M)

University of Tokyo

Jan 2021 96M
Language Proprietary
NC

RNN + char4-MS-vec

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Jul 2019 226M
Language Proprietary
NC

RNN + char3-MS-vec

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Jul 2019 175M
Language Proprietary
NC

RNN + char2-MS-vec

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Jun 2019 158M
Language Proprietary
NC

(ensemble): AWD-LSTM-DOC (fin) × 5 (PTB)

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Aug 2018
Language Open (Restricted)
NC

(ensemble): AWD-LSTM-DOC (fin) × 5 (WT2)

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Aug 2018 185M
Language Open (Restricted)
NC

AWD-LSTM-DOC (fin) (23M)

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Aug 2018 23M
Language Open (Restricted)
NC

AWD-LSTM-DOC (fin) (37M)

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Aug 2018 37M
Language Open (Restricted)
PN

Spectrally Normalized GAN

Preferred Networks Inc

Feb 2018
Language Proprietary
NC

AWD-LSTM+WT+Cache+IOG (PTB)

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Sep 2017 30M
Language Proprietary
NC

AWD-LSTM+WT+Cache+IOG (WT2)

NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Sep 2017 53M
Language Proprietary
NB

Hierarchical Cognitron

NHK Broadcasting Science Research Laboratories

Apr 1984 9.3K
Language Proprietary
NB

Neocognitron

NHK Broadcasting Science Research Laboratories

Apr 1980 1.1M
Vision Proprietary
BC

Cognitron

Biological Cybernetics

Sep 1975 21.6K
Language Proprietary
UO

Self-Organizing Nets of Threshold Elements

University of Tokyo

Nov 1972
Language Proprietary
TM

Decision tree adaline

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

May 1969 2.5K
Language Proprietary

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