Uzabase, Inc. is pleased to announce a new business alliance with Studio Ousia Inc., a company specializing in R&D and practical application of natural language processing via artificial intelligence (AI). Uzabase aspires to leverage this alliance, focused on large language models (LLM), to promote the use of ChatGPT and LLM in the business intelligence domain and spearhead the use of data in new business intelligence both in Japanese and English.
Background and Purpose of the Alliance
Recent rapid development of AI technologies calls for new value creation through improved work efficiency and higher literacy in technology. In April 2023, Uzabase launched its “ChatGPT/LLM Promotion Project”, aiming not only to advance the skills of Uzabase members but also to promote practical use of ChatGPT and LLM with new external partners.
Through this new business alliance with Studio Ousia Inc., a company which drives the practical application of LUKE and other LLM-related technologies and aims to create value as an R&D startup, we will further enhance the value of Uzabase’s proprietary data and eventually realize our Purpose: “Awaken a world of play in business, with our insights.”
Note: Data and content provided by our data and content partners will not be used by ChatGPT/LLM without the consent of the said partners.
Comment from Ikuya Yamada, Co-founder, Chief Scientist / Ph.D., Studio Ousia Inc.
We are pleased to collaborate with Uzabase, a leader in high-quality business intelligence, on LLM. Studio Ousia hopes to contribute to this alliance through our original LLM LUKE, which has demonstrated world-class performance in a wide range of natural language processing tasks, including entity linking, entity recognition, and question answering. We expect to create unprecedented user value through the synergy of our LLM expertise and Uzabase's business intelligence.
Publications on LUKE:
- LUKE: Deep Contextualized Entity Representations with Entity-aware Self-attention. Ikuya Yamada, Akari Asai, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hideaki Takeda, and Yuji Matsumoto. EMNLP, 2020.
- mLUKE: The Power of Entity Representations in Multilingual Pretrained Language Models. Ryokan Ri, Ikuya Yamada, and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. ACL, 2022.
- Global Entity Disambiguation with BERT. Ikuya Yamada, Koki Washio, Hiroyuki Shindo, and Yuji Matsumoto. NAACL, 2022.
- Entity Embedding Completion for Wide-Coverage Entity Disambiguation. Daisuke Oba, Ikuya Yamada, Naoki Yoshinaga, and Masashi Toyoda. EMNLP Findings, 2022.
▼LUKE by Transformers @ Huggingface:
https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/luke
Comment by Atsushi Takayama, UB Research Team Leader, Uzabase, Inc.
Studio Ousia has a proven track record in the research and development of industry-top technologies in natural language processing. They also possess fundamental technologies that could help solve the challenges currently faced by Uzabase in this field. We are confident that this partnership will dramatically increase the value of Uzabase's data and enable us to provide even higher-quality business intelligence to our customers.
About Studio Ousia
With “Smart AI for all organizations” as our mission, we engage in R&D of large language models (LLM) and question answering. Our ambition is to revolutionize business through organizational knowledge learning by the world's most advanced LLMs.
Company Overview
Company Name: Studio Ousia Inc.
Founded: 2007
Representatives: Yasuhiro Watanabe / Ikuya Yamada
Address: 4F Otemachi Building, 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 100-0004
https://www.ousia.jp/en/
About UB Research
UB Research, to be established in 2023, is a technology lab within Uzabase, Inc. that will specialize in technological development dedicated to business intelligence. With the mission of “Bringing all data to life as business intelligence”, UB Research will accelerate and diversify the evolution of existing products via cutting-edge knowledge. It also aims to leverage technological research for Uzabase to become a technology company, which is one of Uzabase's material issues.
Uzabase to Establish Technology Lab UB Research:
https://www.uzabase.com/en/info/en-ubresearch/
UB Research website (Japanese only):
https://research.uzabase.com/
Company Overview
Company Name: Uzabase, Inc.
Date of establishment: April 1, 2008
Representatives: Co-CEOs Yusuke Inagaki / Taira Sakuma
Address: Mitsubishi Building, 2-5-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-0005, Japan
https://www.uzabase.com/en/
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https://www.uzabase.com/contact/
