How NTT Research approaches its basic science explorations | Kazu Gomi interview

It’s still heartening to see that big companies can still invest in basic research, with much of the work done in Silicon Valley. Japanese telecommunications firm NTT announced a series of research projects last week that could pave the way for better AI and more energy efficient data centers. At a press conference in San Francisco, NTT researchers including Kazu Gomi, CEO of NTT Research, said the company has created a new large language model (LLM) integration that can see and process graphical elements of documents. I caught up with Gomi for an interview during the event. Gomi also said NTT has initiated a new field of science, “the physics of intelligence,” to study sustainable and trustworthy AI. It teamed up with Harvard University to study brain science, and it is working on making a “digital twin” of the human heart. It’s also exploring quantum computing. How NTT Research approaches its basic science explorations | Kazu Gomi interview | VentureBeat