Collaboration With Microsoft, Hitachi Will Accelerate Social Innovation With GenAI

JAKARTA - Hitachi Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. announced the projection of a billion-dollar collaboration over the next three years that will accelerate social innovation with a generating AI.

In particular, Hitachi will embed Microsoft cloud, Azure Open AI Service, Dynamics 365, Copilot for Microsoft 365 and GitHub Copilot into Lumada solutions to provide innovative solutions for energy, mobility, and other industries to provide better results for business and society.

In addition, the two companies will promote joint projects to meet urgent business needs such as strengthening cloud services, increasing security, and mitigating environmental impacts from data centers, which have become an increasingly increasing focus area in line with the increasing use of generative AI.

"Hitachi and Microsoft have worked on various joint creation projects including the development of future generations of digital solutions for manufacturing and logistics and expanded metaverse development in the field running in Microsoft Teams," said Keiji Kojima, president and CEO of Hitachi.

With this new agreement, Kojima added, Hitachi is eager to further accelerate social innovation by expanding its efforts into the fields of social infrastructure such as energy and mobility, and by implementing a generating AI, to increase worker productivity.

Our expanded partnership with Hitachi will unite Microsoft Cloud forces including Microsoft Copilot with Hitachi's industry expertise to increase productivity of 270,000 Hitachi employees and help address customers' biggest challenges, including sustainability," Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft.