Hitachi and Microsoft have announced a projected multibillion-dollar collaboration over the next three years to accelerate social innovation with generative AI.
The collaboration aims to integrate Microsoft's technologies like Azure Open AI Service and Copilot into Hitachi's Lumada solutions for application development and customer transformations.
Hitachi plans to train over 50,000 "GenAI Professionals" to support customer transformations and internal efficiency improvements using tools like GitHub Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service.
Hitachi will invest 300 billion yen in GenAI to drive growth opportunities and enhance productivity in 2024.
The collaboration aims to bolster cloud services, enhance security, and reduce the environmental footprint of data centers using generative AI.
Sources: Bloomberg, ZDNet, Beta News, Mirage News, Investing.com, Market Screener, Yahoo Finance, whatech.com
This article was written in collaboration with Generative AI news company Alchemiq.
