As AI technologies—especially generative AI —are becoming essential not only for industry but society’s core infrastructure, AI developers and service providers are expected to meet increasingly high standards of safety, reliability, and accountability.
Under robust AI governance aligned with government guidelines, Preferred Networks (PFN) develops and provides the Japan-made generative AI foundation model PLaMo™ and a range of AI solutions protecting people’s lives, communities, and culture, serving Japanese government agencies, local municipalities, nonprofit organizations and infrastructure companies.
PLaMo Prime is the flagship model with world-class Japanese-language performance and a compact model size, available through the cloud-based PLaMo API (paid service) and the assistant chat service PLaMo Chat (currently offering free trial access during the launch campaign). PLaMo Prime is also offered in on-premises environment through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, and is built-in by default in third-party platforms such as miibo (Japanese AI building platform), Tachyon Generative AI (corporate AI service), and QommonsAI (used by over 150 local governments in Japan).
PLaMo Translate is a large-scale language model (LLM) developed fully from scratch by PFN with specialized focus on text translation to and from Japanese. The model has been trained on a unique dataset containing a high proportion of both Japanese and English texts to achieve superior quality and accuracy in translations between Japanese and English compared to foreign models. PLaMo Translate features a compact size and highly efficient computational design, making it suitable for on-premise or local deployment. It also provides a browser extension for convenient use.
