What an innovative Japanese AI unicorn can teach Silicon Valley


Huge inflow: An employee of a camera chain promotes the release of Microsoft’s operating system in Tokyo in this file photo. Microsoft will spend some US$2.9bil, its biggest-ever investment in Japan, to increase cloud computing and AI infrastructure. — AFP

SILICON Valley’s “move fast and break things” mantra propelled tech innovation for the Internet age.

In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), it should take a leaf out of Japan’s playbook and slow down.

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