Nvidia (NVDA, Financials), the chipmaker behind many of the systems powering artificial intelligence, is widening its reach across Japan's largest industries.
During a visit to Tokyo, CEO Jensen Huang announced partnerships covering robotics, health care, banking, manufacturing, automobiles, quantum computing and gaming.
The biggest theme was physical AI. Japanese companies including FANUC, Sony, Hitachi, Kubota and SoftBank plan to work with Nvidia on models for robots and industrial systems that can understand and respond to the real world.
In health care, several drugmakers are using Nvidia's BioNeMo platform to support drug discovery. Canon and Fujifilm also introduced medical imaging systems built with Nvidia technology.
Toyota is expanding its work with Nvidia on driver-assistance software, factory simulations and traffic systems. Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui are building AI infrastructure for banking, while RIKEN is preparing Blackwell-powered supercomputers for scientific and quantum research.
The announcements show Nvidia is looking beyond data centers for its next phase of growth.