- NVIDIA and Noetra will build a Vera Rubin AI factory to power Japan’s physical AI initiatives
- The facility will support Japan’s FRONTia Project focused on developing multimodal AI models for robotics and real-world applications
- The AI factory will deliver 140 megawatts of data center capacity with thousands of NVIDIA Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs
NVIDIA and Noetra are partnering to build a Vera Rubin AI factory in Japan that will provide computing infrastructure for the country’s FRONTia Project, an initiative backed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to advance physical artificial intelligence development.
NVIDIA said Thursday the AI factory will include 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and will deliver 140 megawatts of data center capacity based on the NVIDIA DSX platform.
“NVIDIA is honored to partner with Japan and its industrial leaders to build the AI infrastructure that will power the country’s industries, its economy and a new generation of innovation,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
The partnership builds on NVIDIA’s broader effort to expand Japan’s physical AI ecosystem. Earlier this month, NVIDIA announced that Japanese robotics, manufacturing and technology leaders are adopting its Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson platforms to develop intelligent machines, digital twins and industrial AI applications.
What Will the AI Factory Support?
The facility will be designed using NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks and NVIDIA DSX, with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. The infrastructure will enable the development of open multimodal foundation models used for AI agents, digital twins, robotics and other physical AI applications.
Domestic model developers and enterprises will gain access to pretrained weights from Noetra’s multimodal foundation models, along with NVIDIA software such as Nemotron, Cosmos, Isaac GR00T open models and NeMo libraries.
How Does the Project Support Japan’s AI Goals?
The AI factory will serve as the computing foundation for Japan’s FRONTia Project, formally titled “Development of Multimodal Foundation Models with a View to AI Robotics and Physical AI.” The project will combine Japan’s manufacturing expertise, industrial data and technology partnerships to build multimodal foundation models for physical AI applications.
NVIDIA said the Vera Rubin AI factory architecture will support trillion-parameter-scale AI model training and provide organizations in Japan access to advanced AI computing capabilities. The company also said the infrastructure will use NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and integrated hardware and software technologies to support AI performance and scale.
