Announced details
ELEMENTS is one of the participating institutions and project implementers in an NEDO-selected project for which AIST is the representative institution.
NEDO is a national research and development agency that promotes the Post-5G Information and Communications System Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project. AIST is the national research and development agency serving as the representative institution for the project. No information is provided on its location, representative, capital or year of establishment.
2 use cases / 40 models / 7 AI semiconductors (as of October 2026)
Free of charge (no registration required; freely accessible)
Limited impact on consolidated results for the fiscal year ending November 2026
The company does not address Contract Value.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Information and Communications White Paper 2025”
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), "DX Trends 2026"
NEDO, “Post-5G Information and Communications System Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project”
AIST, “R&D on the Utilization of Diverse AI Semiconductors and the High-Efficiency Use of Computing Resources”
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Names of Products / Services Covered | Kurabe (AI leaderboard), AI infrastructure services |
| Counterparty | New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| Counterparty overview | NEDO is a national research and development agency that promotes the Post-5G Information and Communications System Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project. AIST is the national research and development agency serving as the representative institution for the project. No information is provided on its location, representative, capital or year of establishment. |
| Relationship with the Company | ELEMENTS is one of the participating institutions and project implementers in an NEDO-selected project for which AIST is the representative institution. |
| Offering price | Free of charge (no registration required; freely accessible) |
| Launch date | 12 November 2026 (already launched) |
| Applicable area | All business processes of Japanese companies, Responding to inquiries (chat-based), Information extraction from documents, Financial sector, Manufacturing |
| Location scale | 2 use cases / 40 models / 7 AI semiconductors (as of October 2026) |
| Impact on Business Performance | Limited impact on consolidated results for the fiscal year ending November 2026 |
| Source | Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Information and Communications White Paper 2025”, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), "DX Trends 2026", NEDO, “Post-5G Information and Communications System Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project”, AIST, “R&D on the Utilization of Diverse AI Semiconductors and the High-Efficiency Use of Computing Resources” |
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The reasons the company gives
The company's own explanation, not something inferred from the numbers.The service is intended to enable companies to select AI models and execution environments suited to their business processes, against a backdrop of broader AI adoption by Japanese companies and rising operating costs for AI infrastructure. It makes some of the R&D成果 from an NEDO project available to Japanese companies.