Noetra Launches Full-Scale R&D for Japan-Developed Multimodal Foundat…

Noetra, backed by Sony, SoftBank, NEC, and Honda, is launching full-scale R&D on a Japan-developed multimodal foundation model for physical AI and robots, with 44 total investors. The consortium plans to build GPU infrastructure with 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs operational by June 2028, targeting reasoning and omni-modal capabilities by fiscal 2030. Japan is committing state-scale capital to build an AI foundation model stack that stays on-shore; if you're selling GPU infrastructure, specialised models, or manufacturing robotics, you now have a proven buyer willing to pay for sovereign capability over US alternatives. The 27,500-GPU cluster coming online in 2028 is a market signal—it means Japanese companies will fund local AI stacks for the next decade.