NYK invests in Japanese AI agency

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has entered right into a enterprise and capital alliance settlement with Sony-backed synthetic intelligence (AI) agency Ghelia.

NYK is investing in Ghelia and the 2 firms will now collaborate on R&D for autonomous ships, in addition to pintroducing Ghelia’s AI applied sciences to enterprise processes in NYK’s gross sales and company divisions.

Hideki Suzuki, govt officer of NYK, commented: “Sooner or later, we anticipate to not solely virtually utilise AI applied sciences in NYK but additionally work on creating new worth by offering AI companies that lead the transport business.”