Tokyo, from July 6, 2023 NEC Corporation (NEC, Tokyo Stock Exchange 6701) has developed generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can be customized for each customer in order to respond to business changes caused by new technology and create new value for companies. . The new “NEC Generative AI Service” will start providing its own large-scale language model (LLM) license, dedicated hardware, software, consulting services, etc. in Japan from this month, and will gradually expand to new markets after FY2024.
In addition, NEC will partner with approximately 10 companies and universities to launch the “NEC Generative AI Advanced Customer Program” in July to support model construction, software and organization development, etc., together with customers. . About the use of LLM.
In addition, on July 1st, we established the NEC Group, a specialized organization for promoting customer business transformation. Generative AI Hub” was established. NEC aims to achieve sales of 50 billion yen over the next three years from these generative AI-related businesses.
Recently, as companies and local governments are considering business transformation using various language models, such as ChatGPT, which has exceeded 100 million users in two months since the service started in November 2022, the field of generative AI has entered the market. is getting a lot of attention.
However, the use of generative AI poses security issues such as information leaks and vulnerabilities, as well as issues such as system accuracy and continued use. In addition, in the case of corporate use, efforts are being made not only for translation and summarization, but also for more essential purposes, such as modeling the knowledge accumulated in the company and building a mechanism to promote its use within the company. Is required.
NEC started using generative AI for internal business from May this year. We built an environment and system that employees can use safely and securely in two weeks. It is also linked with in-house systems such as in-house chat and web conferencing tools, and is used by about 20,000 users, and is used about 10,000 times a day.
As a result, we are beginning to see results such as an 80% reduction in source code creation man-hours and a 50% reduction in document creation time in in-house system development. Meetings take an average of 30 minutes to about 5 minutes.
At NEC, we will continue to apply the know-how we have gained through LLM-related in-house utilization to improve the efficiency of tasks common to all employees, such as document proofreading, and specialized areas such as software development. service.
NEC will continue to provide its own generative AI for the creation of new corporate value based on the resolution of these issues and internal utilization.
NEC’s original LLM function
