Preferred Networks

We are a startup with ~200 members based in Tokyo, focusing on developing AI for Autonomous Driving, Robotics, and Bio-Healthcare. We love open source and are actively developing CuPy and the deep learning framework Chainer. We have one of the world’s largest private GPU clusters, with 1024 NVIDIA Tesla P100 and 512 V100 32Gb GPUs. We have a strong emphasis on research, and our technical advisor is Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley). We continuously publish at top conferences like ICRA, ICCV, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NIPS, NAACL, CHI, etc. We are a gold sponsor of NIPS this year. We have raised over $100 million from various investors. We have a western-style working environment with the ability to communicate in either English or Japanese.