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About Preferred Networks

Preferred Networks (PFN) is a Japanese AI company with the mission to make the real world computable and create the future together. It is unusual in vertically integrating the whole AI value chain in-house across four layers: AI semiconductors, computing infrastructure, generative AI foundation models, and AI products and solutions. Its named technologies include the MN-Core series of AI processors, the PFCP cloud service for AI computing, and PLaMo, its Japan-made large language model. Through subsidiaries and group companies it also works in materials simulation (Matlantis) and autonomous mobile robots (Preferred Robotics). PFN applies its in-house computing platform and technologies, combined with customer domain knowledge, to AI products and solutions for a wide range of industries, and it presents its strengths as a team fusing software, hardware and domain expertise, with world-class engineers and researchers and extensive collaboration results across many industries.

Its official factsheet gives its headquarters in Tokyo’s Otemachi Building, a founding date of 26 March 2014 and approximately 400 employees. For directory and robotics partners, PFN matters as the group behind Preferred Robotics and as an industrial AI supplier whose models, chips and compute can underpin physical-world and robotics applications in Japan and beyond.

Products & services

• MN-Core series AI processors
• PFCP cloud service for AI computing
• PLaMo large language model (Japan-made generative AI foundation model)
• AI products and solutions for multiple industries
• Autonomous mobile robots and materials simulation via group companies (Preferred Robotics; Matlantis)

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