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ai&, a Japanese AI technology company, has launched ai& inference, a platform delivering frontier AI inference at up to 80% lower cost than comparable proprietary models. The platform uses heterogeneous compute architecture, combining AMD, NVIDIA and Tenstorrent silicon under a unified serving layer. The company operates the largest AMD-based inference deployment in Japan and the world's largest Tenstorrent deployment. By optimising each computational step for specific processors, ai& achieves token efficiencies unavailable to single-architecture providers, particularly for agentic workflows involving multiple iterative loops. ai& has secured over $2 billion in capital funding to build multiple 100-megawatt AI data centres over three years. The platform offers drop-in compatibility with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs and is available today at console.aiand.com.

ai& and Ryoyo Ryosan have formed a partnership to accelerate the adoption of AI inference solutions in Japan. 2026.05.22 Information * Home * Information * ai& and Ryoyo Ryosan have formed a partnership to accelerate the adoption of AI inference solutions in Japan. Ryoyo Ryosan, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a partnership with AI& Inc. (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Co-Founder & CEO: David Bennett, hereinafter "ai&"), a vertically integrated global AI technology company. This partnership will accelerate the adoption of AI by companies in Japan by combining Ryoyo Ryosan's hardware procurement capabilities, configuration proposal capabilities, and sales network in the enterprise market with ai&'s high-performance inference solutions. As one of AI&'s key hardware partners, Ryoyo Ryosan leverages its strong partnerships with major hardware vendors to provide the optimal hardware configuration for AI&'s inference solutions. Furthermore, as an enterprise sales partner for AI&'s inference solutions, Ryoyo Ryosan promotes proposals and implementation support to domestic companies. This will enable companies to deploy inference environments that leverage advanced AI models more quickly and cost-effectively. Challenges in implementing AI inference solutions in Japan. The use of generative AI is rapidly expanding in various areas, including business efficiency, customer service, research and development, and software development support. However, for companies to truly integrate AI into their operations, a stable and secure inference environment capable of running high-performance AI models is essential. Especially for companies handling highly confidential data, processing performance is not the only important requirement; data handling, security, operational management, and cost predictability are also crucial. Therefore, the demand for inference solutions suited to a company's practical business environment is increasing. On the other hand, procuring, configuring, and operating the GPU servers and related infrastructure necessary for AI inference requires specialized knowledge and the ability to navigate complex supply chains. The involvement of multiple sales agents, system integrators, and maintenance vendors often leads to increased implementation costs and prolonged deployment times. This partnership will address these challenges by making it easier for companies to implement solutions while reducing the time and cost burden. Furthermore, it will enable the integrated provision of a highly secure data management platform and a reliable AI utilization environment. Value provided by this partnership. 1. Providing hardware procurement and optimal configuration. As one of ai&'s leading hardware partners, Ryoyo Ryosan will support the procurement and configuration proposals of high-performance GPU-accelerated server infrastructure. Leveraging its long-standing partnerships with leading hardware vendors, Ryoyo Ryosan will provide optimal hardware configurations for ai&'s inference solutions. This will enable ai& to achieve optimal configurations tailored to its applications and workloads, improving the performance and cost efficiency of its inference solutions. 2. Enterprise sales of inference solutions. ai&'s inference solutions include a high-performance AI model execution environment, API access, and a scalable AI application development and operation environment, providing companies with an easy way to integrate generative AI and AI agents into their business operations. Ryoyo Ryosan will act as an enterprise sales partner for ai&'s inference solutions, providing proposals and implementation support to domestic companies. By leveraging Ryoyo Ryosan's customer base and sales network, Ryoyo Electro Corporation will deliver ai&'s inference solutions to more domestic companies and support their use of AI. The adoption of AI in Japan has been hindered not by a lack of motivation, but by a lack of accessibility. Together with Ryoyo Ryosan, which has a long-standing business foundation in Japan and a broad ecosystem of customers and partners, Ryoyo Electro Corporation will remove the infrastructure barriers that have prevented adoption until now and provide secure, Japan-based AI capabilities that are world-class competitive in both performance and price. This partnership embodies ai&'s mission to accelerate AI across borders, starting with Japan's world-class engineering talent. The use of AI has already become a crucial topic that influences a company's competitiveness. In particular, in recent years, companies have been carefully considering where to handle the data that forms the basis of their AI, and there is a rapidly growing demand for infrastructure that can safely process and store this data domestically. This partnership with ai& allows Ryoyo Electro Corporation to leverage its long-standing hardware procurement capabilities and customer base to provide world-class AI inference environments and advanced AI solutions. By removing the obstacles that have previously hindered AI adoption, its customers will be able to utilize AI more quickly and with greater confidence. By combining the strengths of both companies, Ryoyo Electro Corporation will accelerate AI implementation among Japanese companies and contribute to improving Japan's industrial competitiveness. Kazuhiko Inaba (left), President and CEO of Ryoyo Ryosan, Ltd., and David Bennett (right), AI & CEO. About ai&. ai& is a global AI technology company built on the simple belief that "companies that own and optimize their full stack will dominate the AI era." By integrating next-generation data center infrastructure, heterogeneous computing, and frontier model services into a single, optimized platform, ai& provides enterprises and developers with performance, cost-effectiveness, and sovereignty (data sovereignty) that cannot be achieved by single-layer providers. Founded in Japan and expanding globally, ai& is committed to building the foundation for the AI-native era. For more information about ai&, please visit www.aiand.com. Ryoyo Electro Corporation also share information on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter). Inquiries regarding this matter. Ryoyo Ryosan Holdings, Inc., Planning Division, Public Relations Department TEL: 03-3546-6331 Email address: [email protected]