How NTT Research has shifted more basic R&D into AI for the enterprise | Kazu Gomi interview

Kazu Gomi has a big view of the technology world from his perch in Silicon Valley. And as president and CEO of NTT Research, a division of the big Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, Gomi can control the R&D budget for a sizable chunk of the basic research that is done in Silicon Valley. And perhaps it’s no surprise that Gomi is pouring a lot of money into AI for the enterprise to discover new opportunities to take advantage of the AI explosion. Last week, Gomi unveiled a new research effort to focus on the physics of AI and well as a chip design for an AI inference chip that can process 4K video faster. This comes on the heels of research projects announced last year that could pave the way for better AI and more energy efficient data centers. I spoke with Gomi about this effort in the context of other things big companies like Nvidia are doing. Physical AI has become a big deal in 2025, with Nvidia leading the charge to create synthetic data to pretest self-driving cars and human ... Read full article.