The Beyond AI Joint Project aims to form the “Institute for AI and Beyond,” a center of excellence established by the University of Tokyo and SoftBank (SoftBank Corporation, SoftBank Group Corporation and Yahoo Japan Corporation) that brings together the leading talent and knowledge of the world, to develop an ecosystem for social implementation and business deployment of research outcome.

The Institute for AI and Beyond promotes Basic Research (Mid- and Long-term Research) that aims to create a new academic fields and Applied Research (High-cycle Research) that aims to utilize AI for various social and industrial issues by integrating fundamental technology research of AI and other fields. Our goal is to contribute to further development of AI research and realization of a better society in Japan through early social implementation and business deployment of research outcome by prompt establishment of joint ventures.