NEC launches its own generative AI

Japanese vendor NEC has joined the growing list of companies aiming to capitalise on AI hype by launching three new offering.
Perhaps the most significant of these is NEC’s very own large language model (LLM), specifically targeted at the Japanese market. The vendor says it operates with a high degree accuracy using a relatively small number of parameters – 13 billion to be precise. By comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-4 reportedly uses a trillion.
Parameters are important because these