Generative AI Sector in Japan

Generative AI sector in Japan has seen 3 IPOs. This represents almost 7.0% of all such companies - which is higher than the 5.0% exit rate of tech companies in general.

This sector includes companies that develop generative AI systems capable of creating entirely new content, artifacts, or data by learning patterns and representations from existing datasets. These systems generate novel outputs that resemble but do not replicate the original data, including text, images, video, audio, computer code, synthetic data, workflows, and models of physical objects.

Covers companies across the Generative AI value chain, including those developing core infrastructure, platforms for deploying and managing generative AI systems, and development tools. It also includes companies providing generative AI solutions for creating text, video, audio, and other content, applicable in consumer-specific, industry-specific  (such as healthcare, fashion, gaming, and architecture) and enterprise applications (including human resources, sales, marketing, customer support, and robotic process automation). Excludes companies that provide usual AI based solutions that do not generate any content. Excludes companies like traditional chatbots, computer vision solutions and companies providing infrastructure solutions for building AI applications, natural language processing. This also excludes companies that provide traditional customer service software platforms that work on a pre-trained model and doesn't generate replies on its own.