We are seeking engineers who can work on the post-training of our LLMs. If you have a passion for developing LLMs that will be widely used across various industries, please apply now! open.talentio.com/r/1/c/preferre…

PFN, Rapidus and SAKURA internet reached a basic agreement toward providing a Japan-made AI infrastructure powered by PFN's low-power AI chips in the MN-Core™ series. preferred.jp/en/news/pr2025…

We just published a blog post about resolving the out-of-memory issue with cgroup v2 in Kubernetes. The feature introduced in the blog post has been available since Kubernetes v1.32. tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/kubern…

Optuna 4.2.0 and OptunaHub 0.2.0 are out! Try the newest Optuna and OptunaHub! 👇See what’s new medium.com/optuna/announc…

Our PFP universal neural network potential achieves current state-of-the-art in a benchmark for lattice thermal conductivity prediction. Read more on our tech blog: tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/lattic…

Pre-register to our Summer 2025 Internship Program in Japan to receive invitations for applications directly from PFN! preferred.jp/en/news/pr2025…

Our PFP universal neural network potential shows good surface energy prediction, comparable to the best-performing models in the CHIPS-FF benchmark. For more details, please visit tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/benchm…

Our PFP descriptors achieve accuracy that is superior or comparable to models on the official Matbench Leaderboard—highlighting their remarkable potential for transfer learning! Read more: tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/the-po…

Preferred Networks will be featured in Managing Asia on CNBC this weekend📺Don't miss out! Europe (CET) Sat, Mar 8: 6:00, 10:00, 18:00 Sun, Mar 9: 7:00, 16:00, 19:00 Asia (Hong Kong/Singapore) Sat, Mar 8: 7:00, 18:00 Sun, Mar 9: 8:00, 10:00, 19:00

Watch this 13-minute video of PFN co-founders Toru Nishikawa and Daisuke Okanohara introducing the company's vision, strategies, solutions for real-world problems, AI chips and management styles on CNBC's #ManagingAsia cnbc.com/video/2025/03/…

6 parties including PFN will use PFN’s AI-based weather data compression and transmission platform Cumulon and other advanced technologies to provide high-precision weather forecasts to visitors and staff of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan preferred.jp/en/news/pr2025…

We are now accepting applicants for our 2025 summer internship program in Japan! Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday, April 20, 2025 (JST) preferred.jp/en/news/intern…

Our new system reconstructs high-def digital 3D models from photos of real-world spaces using #3DGS. With the UE5 plugin users can take advantage of this tech for movies, ads, games, tourism, real estate and more. Read more and check out our demo: preferred.jp/en/news/pr2025…

Optuna v4.3.0 has been released! This is a maintenance release with various minor bug fixes and improvements to the documentation and more. 👇See what’s new github.com/optuna/optuna/…

PFN has raised an additional 5 billion yen in an extension round (total of 24 billion yen in the latest round). The raised fund will be used for the development of MN-Core™ series of AI chips, PLaMo™ LLM, collaborations with the investors, and more. preferred.jp/en/news/pr2025…

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We've published the development roadmap for Optuna v5, the next major release! Scheduled for release next summer, v5 will focus on making Optuna even more powerful and user-friendly — especially at the intersection of generative AI and black-box optimization.

See our blog for more details! medium.com/optuna/optuna-…

Optuna v5 will be built with the power of the community! We'd love your input and participation — check out the feedback form on the roadmap: forms.gle/wVwLCQ9g6st6AX…

We just launched a specialized LLM PLaMo™ Translate! 🇯🇵High-quality translation to and from Japanese 🌐Free trial on website 🏢Compact enough for on-premises use 💬Fluent output in consistent formatting Please try it out! preferred.jp/en/news/pr2025…