Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Chris Neiger, The Motley Fool
Wed, March 12, 2025

Shares of quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) were rising this morning after Japanese online brokerage firm Rakuten Securities disclosed in an SEC filing that it recently purchased 90,000 shares of IonQ's stock.

IonQ's share price is likely also getting a bump after it announced yesterday that its quantum networking patent portfolio has reached nearly 400 granted or pending patents following a recent acquisition.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...stock-surging-higher-161437692.html
 

Telkom in KSh568M partnership to develop and test advanced mobile network technology
March 12, 2025

Telkom Kenya has partnered with mobile equipment vendors Rakuten Symphony, a leading service-based technology company from Japan, and Airspan Networks, a telecommunications company from the United States, to develop and test Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) technology.

The Japanese and United States governments will fund this project through a technology grant of KSh 568 Million (US$ 4.4 Million) that will be administered by Rakuten Symphony and Airspan Networks.

The project partners will set up a testing facility and conduct field and network tests in their quest to advance 4G/5G, Open RAN, and AI innovation on the African continent.

A long-term objective of the project is knowledge transfer and training of local developers and engineers.

https://telkom.co.ke/press-release/...0(Open%2520RAN)%2520technology.
 

Supercharging Rakuten’s merchants with AI: CEO Mikitani

15 hours ago

“Einstein’s brain wasn’t just big. An analysis of his synapses revealed that they were a lot simpler than the average person. Instead of a complex web of synapses, he had simple connections. This means not needing to do wasteful calculations can lead to all sorts of new things and creativity.”

Rakuten has established itself as a significant player in the open-source AI community, last year releasing Rakuten AI 7B, which topped charts in Japanese language performance on release.
“Compared to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Rakuten AI 7B is a smaller, more focused AI,” Mikitani noted. “It’s efficient, and more specialized. Because we developed it ourselves, we can tune it specifically towards shopping.”

Rakuten’s AI engineers have since launched numerous open AI models, including Rakuten AI 2.0, a Mixture of Experts model optimized for the Japanese language, and Rakuten AI 2.0 mini, a small language model designed to be run locally with high efficiency on edge devices.

https://rakuten.today/blog/...ens-merchants-with-ai-ceo-mikitani.html