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Rakuten Innovation

The latest insights and news about Rakuten innovation and entrepreneurship.

Mobile Tech Explained: Cloud infrastructure

This article is part of a series breaking down the complex systems and technologies that make up the Rakuten Mobile network and Rakuten Communications Platform. In this edition, we speak with Ryota Mibu, division manager for infrastructure platforms at Rakuten Mobile, Inc. The cloud is one of the defining technologies of the twenty-first century – …

January 19, 2021
Rakuten Mobile scientists build the future of telecommunications with autonomous networking

In April 2020, Rakuten Mobile made history by launching the world’s first fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network. The company’s ambitious undertakings have attracted global talent from all corners of the telecommunications industry and beyond, each with their own ideas on how to push this revolutionary network even further. Dr. Pierre Imai joined Rakuten as Principal …

December 11, 2020
Rakuten’s Open LLM Tops Performance Charts in Japanese

Japan’s open-source AI community is taking a major leap forward, thanks to the groundbreaking efforts of Rakuten’s AI engineers and scientists.Last week, Rakuten’s AI team unveiled a suite of large language models (LLMs) with exceptional performance in Japanese*1. Seven billion parameter models are the result of training on top of Mistral-7B, another open-source model with …

April 19, 2024

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January 25, 2024

Rakuten Employees Dazzle on the Dance Floor to Welcome 2024

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January 24, 2024

Tech New Grads Begin Journey at Rakuten

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January 18, 2024

Rakuten Mobile Digitally Transforms Community with Rental Service

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January 17, 2024

Successful Space Call by Mickey and AST CEO Abel

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January 17, 2024

Combating dangerous products in Europe: Rakuten France signs new EU commitments

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January 16, 2024

Warriors and Rakuten Tip Off New Season in Style

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January 15, 2024

AI at the forefront: Rakuten Technology Conference 2023

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January 5, 2024

Rakuten Umaimono Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Nagoya!

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January 5, 2024

NBA Team Partnership of the Year: Rakuten & Golden State Warriors

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January 4, 2024

Generative AI, new milestones and future growth: Reflections on last year’s achievements and looking ahead to 2024

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December 27, 2023

Self-sustaining community-building thanks to Furusato Nozei

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December 22, 2023

"Why Rakuten Mobile?" User Interviews!