Press release

Kyoto, Japan, June 25, 2019 - Hacarus Inc, the leading provider of lightweight and explainable AI, was today awarded the Grand Prize by DS Pharma Animal Health for its innovative AI-enabled technology platform 'Hacarus-X'. "It is a great honor to receive this award for our work in creating technology that will improve animals' lives. Together with DS Pharma, we see a great opportunity to revolutionize animal health diagnostics with our AI technology, making treatment safer, faster and more humane," said…

  We would like to inform you that as of May 27, 2019, our office will move to the following location.   New address :  Dai 12 Hase Building 5A  Hashibenkei-cho, Nakagyo-ku  Kyoto, 604-8151 Japan   We look forward to working with you from our new location.

HACARUS INC., (Headquarters: Kyoto-shi, Nakagyo-ku, CEO: Kenshin Fujiwara) is an AI-based machine learning technology company that specializes in small data AI using sparse modeling. We have filed a patent related to HACARUS-X-Edge, our AI solution for FPGAs that enables edge machine learning. This is part of our strategy to protect the Intellectual Property of our unique artificial intelligence (AI) technology that applies sparse modeling to machine learning. Since the beginning, Hacarus has promoted the development of our unique AI technology,…

A modular solution targeted as secondary inspection step – integrated with or alongside existing inspection systems. Hacarus Inc.(Headquarters: Kyoto-shi, Nakagyo-ku, CEO: Kenshin Fujiwara) announces the launch of a beta trial of their visual inspection solution that is based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Hacarus has created an AI that applies sparse modeling technology, which excels in feature extraction from small amounts of data. The team at Hacarus has prepared dedicated AI models to cover various inspection cases with high performance. The…

From April 3-5, 2019, HACARUS INC, (Headquarters: Kyoto-shi, Nakagyo-ku, CEO: Kenshin Fujiwara) will be exhibiting its booth during Tokyo Big Sight’s 3rd Artificial Intelligence EXPO and partnering with PALTEK (Headquarters: Yokohama-shi, Kohoku-ku, CEO: Naohide Yabuki, Security Code: 7587) and holding its demo exhibition booth.   From January 2019, Hacarus and PALTEK co-developed and began offering services of HACARUS-X-Edge, an AI solution for FPGA that makes edge learning possible. HACARUS-X-Edge excels in extracting small data through Sparse Modeling technology and putting…

Hacarus (Headquarters: Kyoto, Nakagyo-ku, Representative Board Member: Fujiwara Kenshin), a company offering unique data analysis services through AI, is proud to announce that Dr. Kentaro Ohki, Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, has officially become an advisor. His research interests are in time-sequence analysis, estimation, and control of stochastic dynamical systems, in particular, quantum dynamical systems and their applications to quantum information technology.  He is also appointed as important positions in academics, such as Vice-Chairperson at related…

Hacarus to Offer HACARUS-X-Edge for FPGA-Based Machine Edge Learning Free of Charge to Users of the Xilinx Zynq ZCU104 Evaluation Kit (Offer Lasts Until March 2019) Hacarus Inc. (Headquarters: Kyoto City, Nakagyo-ku Ward, Representative Director: Kenshin Fujiwara) is an AI-based company that develops and expands on artificial intelligence packages. Hacarus released an AI solution called “HACARUS-X-Edge” for FPGA-based machine edge-learning, offering the Xilinx FPGA evaluation kit in joint development with PALTEK (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kohoku-ku Ward, President and Representative Director:…

Hacarus Inc. (Head office: Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Representative Director: Kenshin Fujiwara), a provider of artificial intelligence solutions, starts to provide support to new members and opened the new web page ”Hacarus - Work in Japan support”.   Recently, we started hiring new team members not only in Japan and Philippines, but also from other countries – and we are planning to support new members from overseas with their relocation, visa, and related things.              …

Raising a Total of 270 Million Yen in Series A Round, Accelerating the Development of Edge Computing with an AI Chip   Sparse Modeling AI startup Hacarus (Headquarters: Kyoto City, Nakagyo-ku Ward, CEO: Kenshin Fujiwara) has announced its issue of third-party allocation of shares. On October 5, 2018, Hacarus had officially fundraised 100 million yen. Since July 2018, this funding round has further continued rising a total sum of 270 million yen resulting in the completion of Series A round.…

The initial setup combines PicoCELA’s wireless edge device "PCWL - 0400" with Hacarus’ machine learning technology. Through this joint press release, Hacarus inc. (Head office: Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Representative Director: Kenshin Fujiwara), a developer of artificial intelligence solutions and PicoCELA Corporation (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, President: Hiroshi Furukawa) announce their collaboration on creating edge AI solutions for wireless backhaul technology*1. The initial development includes the integration of Hacarus' AI engine "HACARUS-X-Edge” with PicoCELA's edge computer "PCWL-0400", and the creation of…