Biden, Kishida Announce Amazon, Nvidia-Funded AI Research (1)

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have enlisted Amazon.com Inc. and Nvidia Corp. to fund a new joint artificial intelligence research program, as the two nations look to improve collaboration around the quickly emerging technology.

Nvidia, Amazon, Arm Holdings and Microsoft Corp. — along with a group of Japanese companies — will provide $110 million for AI research partnerships between the University of Washington in Seattle and Tsukuba University outside Tokyo and between Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Tokyo’s Keio University, the two leaders said in a joint statement following their summit in Washington on ...